I somewhat agree, but, first of all, if a company deletes your record it will in time be completely gone as most company's will not keep backups for longer then 10 years or so. At least, i would be surprised if they keep them longer, and aren't potential buyers more interested in the newest version of the database? Either way, 10 years is better then forever.
Secondly, this law gives people more rights to complain if it seems that data somehow ends up with company X which u never heard of. If this keeps happening people can collectively point to this law and put the involving company's under political pressure to really remove their data and fine them on top of it.
So yeah, i think it helps, a bit, especially against spammers. But it doesn't not solve everything off course. Especially not the potential problems for employers and politicians. Well, at least they have a law to fall back on to give them the possibility to fight back in case of misuse of data, despite the fact that they might of already lost their career because they happen to have been registered users of an amateur porn website who sold their data to a manager or political opponent.
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I somewhat agree, but, first of all, if a company deletes your record it will in time be completely gone as most company's will not keep backups for longer then 10 years or so. At least, i would be surprised if they keep them longer, and aren't potential buyers more interested in the newest version of the database? Either way, 10 years is better then forever.
Secondly, this law gives people more rights to complain if it seems that data somehow ends up with company X which u never heard of. If this keeps happening people can collectively point to this law and put the involving company's under political pressure to really remove their data and fine them on top of it.
So yeah, i think it helps, a bit, especially against spammers. But it doesn't not solve everything off course. Especially not the potential problems for employers and politicians. Well, at least they have a law to fall back on to give them the possibility to fight back in case of misuse of data, despite the fact that they might of already lost their career because they happen to have been registered users of an amateur porn website who sold their data to a manager or political opponent.