The world’s approach to privacy
2 Online privacy
There’s not a global way to approach the online privacy. Depending on the region there’s different politics and laws.
In Europe, the responsibility of data privacy belongs to every and each one of the individual users. They believe in the “Privacy by default”.
Recently, the European Union replaced the 1997 Data Protection Directive, with the new GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation. With this update, Europe is trying to balance the digital freedom with the citizens’ privacy rights. This give to the pleople the tools they need to control the data collected about them.
One of the basic rules for Europe is “The right to be forgotten” and have data removed from search engines if the person ask for it.
The US, instead, believes that digital privacy is the responsibility of the technology companies. US citizens don't have as much control about their privacy as Europe. Some people say this this freedom afforded to tech companies is the triumph of the free market.
China have a different point of view: it is the government's responsibility to protect users from having their personal data used to commit fraud or for other illegal purposes.
China’s policy is more strict that the new Europe’s GDPR. In china is not possible for firms to share data with third-parties for legitimate reasons without user’s explicit consent.
On the other side, Russia take a different track in this topic. Until five years ago, Russia had little internet regulations. Since then they have been doing rules by its own. The first data localization law that came into effect was in 2015 and was a personal data protection measure to give people the opportunity to take their personal data down from a company with the pertinent request process. Nonetheless the government retains its own oversight powers related to citizens personal data.
There’s not a global way to approach the online privacy. Depending on the region there’s different politics and laws.
In Europe, the responsibility of data privacy belongs to every and each one of the individual users. They believe in the “Privacy by default”.
Recently, the European Union replaced the 1997 Data Protection Directive, with the new GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation. With this update, Europe is trying to balance the digital freedom with the citizens’ privacy rights. This give to the pleople the tools they need to control the data collected about them.
One of the basic rules for Europe is “The right to be forgotten” and have data removed from search engines if the person ask for it.
The US, instead, believes that digital privacy is the responsibility of the technology companies. US citizens don't have as much control about their privacy as Europe. Some people say this this freedom afforded to tech companies is the triumph of the free market.
China have a different point of view: it is the government's responsibility to protect users from having their personal data used to commit fraud or for other illegal purposes.
China’s policy is more strict that the new Europe’s GDPR. In china is not possible for firms to share data with third-parties for legitimate reasons without user’s explicit consent.
On the other side, Russia take a different track in this topic. Until five years ago, Russia had little internet regulations. Since then they have been doing rules by its own. The first data localization law that came into effect was in 2015 and was a personal data protection measure to give people the opportunity to take their personal data down from a company with the pertinent request process. Nonetheless the government retains its own oversight powers related to citizens personal data.
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