[QUOTE]The Conservatives say they want to give people the power to demand social media companies delete any embarrassing content they posted as children.
The party has promised to introduce "new protections against internet harms" if they win the election.
It wants to work with social media firms such as Facebook and Twitter but have not ruled out legislation.
Labour accused the Tories of "cynically trotting out tough talk that we know will be ultimately meaningless".
But Home Secretary Amber Rudd told BBC 5 live the party had had "early conversations with social media companies" who had "indicated they will work with us on this".
At present, users can delete their profile on social media accounts if they want to get rid of embarrassing content, but this risks losing all their online connections with people.
The Conservatives also want to make it easier to conduct business online, by introducing the right to insist on a so-called digital signature as a replacement for signing a contract by hand.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39905091[/url]
I mean it's a fantastic idea, but I fail to see how it can be implemented. There are way too many tools and bots out there that are documenting things forever and won't be affected by UK law.
TBH it's better to let said embarrassing posts stay so you can show how you've improved since then.
"Deleting" the posts will only make them even more embarrassing, and someone could just dig it up later with an archive to show others how you wanted people to forget about a cringy post you once made.
I'm a little ignorant on social media stuff simply because I don't use any of the proper sites, but can't you already delete stuff you've uploaded on your account on them?
Not that it would help, if you post something controversial people are gonna download or record it and spread it throughout the internet before you can delete it.
And the other stuff mentioned in the article is very worrying too, why is this the headline and not the other stuff.
Hold on a minute.. isn't this already a right for everyone in the EU, and it has proven difficult to implement? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European_Union[/url]
[QUOTE=Morgen;52223039]Hold on a minute.. isn't this already a right for everyone in the EU, and it has proven difficult to implement? [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European_Union[/url][/QUOTE]
conservatives are experts at claiming credit for shit they haven't done
And by "young" they mean themselves, and by "past" they mean "lies they've told while also keep all your information to fine tune their propaganda machines".
Yeah isn't this already covered by the Data Protection Act?
you can literally already delete facebook posts and tweets? what is this empty fucking posturing
reminds me of all the constant child safety stuff that gets passed in regards to online services when basically everything already has either has a) parental locks and services or b) explicit age requirements for use of that service
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;52223349]you can literally already delete facebook posts and tweets? [/QUOTE]
You can, but it takes hours to delete years of Facebook posts manually.
I tried deleting a bunch of stuff from when I was 13, took about 2 hours using an extension to auto delete my posts and that was only a years worth.
If Facebook added a button, delete all posts from a selected year, it'd be great.
[QUOTE=Ziks;52223225]Yeah isn't this already covered by the Data Protection Act?[/QUOTE]
[quote]The Act does not set out any specific minimum or maximum periods for retaining personal data. Instead, it says that:
Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
This is the fifth data protection principle. In practice, it means that you will need to:
review the length of time you keep personal data;
consider the purpose or purposes you hold the information for in deciding whether (and for how long) to retain it;
[b]securely delete information that is no longer needed for this purpose or these purposes;[/b]
and update, archive or securely delete information if it goes out of date.[/quote]
so I guess unless it's absolutely imperative to keep (it's not) then you can already have personal data removed by law
But it sounds like they just want to give users the ability to essentially just delete old posts, which is already possible. I feel like this just makes the conservatives look out of touch
[QUOTE=The Genie;52223501]Is this supposed to win over the young vote lol
They're gonna have to offer much better to beat Labour's promise of abolishing tuition fees or Lib Dems' promise of decriminalising weed[/QUOTE]
Next up: Theresa May playing with a fidget spinner
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