Tuesday 13 March 2012

Privacy: The "Bill of rights" to privacy online by b. Obama

It is a recurring problem which it is most often question on the Web: privacy. Examples of some drifts are not lacking the appeal, for example the inability to delete his Facebook account (Hey Yes, you can only suspend), access to your telephone directories, or even the picture is taken, are expressions that have the wind lately.

The purpose is simple: give more power to the Government term to giants such as Apple, Google or Microsoft. As for now the Government seems completely exceeded. Each week offers lot of regulations of account between the giants of the net, fault in many legal vacuums (recently Apple and Google compete on a history of cookies from Chrome, IE and Safari).

It must be said that issue especially with the use of data on the AppStore or the Android Market users and the project aims to force companies to define why they will use their client data?

Result for the consumer? It should be able to control the type of data collected, businesses should be transparent on the use that they make and especially ask the user for use not expected at the base.

Despite the good intentions of this Bill and the recent policy vis à vis of life the people's private business self-regulation, it is doubtful of the success of such a project as recent events showed us all the progress in this area with Facebook that would have the opportunity to list your mails and discussions instantanées…

Source: LeMonde

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