{"id":161984,"date":"2016-04-18T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=161984"},"modified":"2016-04-18T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:41:37","slug":"eu-approves-strict-internet-privacy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/161984-eu-approves-strict-internet-privacy-rules.html","title":{"rendered":"EU approves strict Internet privacy rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament has approved new data protection rules for the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCitizens will be able to decide for themselves which personal information they want to share,&#8221;\u00a0said Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens, DE).<\/p>\n<p>It also sets minimum standards for the use of data for policing and judicial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The new rules include provisions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A right to be forgotten<\/li>\n<li>\u201cClear and affirmative consent\u201d to the processing of private data by the person concerned<\/li>\n<li>A right to transfer your data to another service provider<\/li>\n<li>The right to know when your data has been hacked<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that privacy policies are explained<\/li>\n<li>Stronger enforcement and fines up to 4% of firms\u2019 total worldwide annual turnover<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new regulations will be enforced 20 days after their publication in the EU Official Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Member states will have two years to transpose the provisions of the directive into national law.<\/p>\n<p>The directive\u2019s provisions will only apply to a limited extent in the UK and Ireland, while\u00a0Denmark can\u00a0decide within six months after the final adoption whether it wants to make them law.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on the right to be forgotten<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/110088-eu-working-on-right-to-be-forgotten-guidelines.html\"><strong>EU working on \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d guidelines<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/106858-google-under-fire-over-right-to-be-forgotten.html\"><strong>Google under fire over \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/106371-microsoft-accepts-right-to-be-forgotten-requests.html\"><strong>Microsoft accepts \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d requests<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/105411-google-flooded-by-right-to-be-forgotten-requests.html\"><strong>Google flooded with \u201cright to be forgotten\u201d requests<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament has approved new data protection rules for the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,27],"tags":[36,20473,36670,36672,18745,25749],"class_list":["post-161984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-security","tag-active","tag-data-privacy","tag-european-union-eu","tag-jan-philipp-albrecht","tag-online-privacy","tag-right-to-be-forgotten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162072,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161984\/revisions\/162072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}