Re New data privacy laws will let Brits erase childhood social posts

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Libert, Tim" <tlibert () asc upenn edu>
> Date: August 7, 2017 at 12:27:26 PM EDT
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] New data privacy laws will let Brits erase childhood social posts
>
> EPIC’s summary of the origins of COPPA is worth reviewing (excerpt below).  21 years later the same dynamics are in 
> play and the situation is now worse than when the law was drafted.  The core issue here is that companies are preying 
> on children to make money by manipulating them to over-share so that they can be advertised to; they are vulnerable 
> and some form of protections are merited.  Saying “it’s on the net deal with it” to a child who has been subject to a 
> billion-dollar machine designed to entice them to share every single thought and photo ignores the profit motives 
> driving the trends.
>
> “Research conducted in 1996 by Kathryn Montgomery and Shelley Pasnik that was published by the Center for Media 
> Education ("CME"), showed that young children cannot understand the potential effects of revealing their personal 
> information; neither can they distinguish between substantive material on websites and the advertisements surrounding 
> it. While some parents tried to monitor their children's use of the Internet services, many of them failed due to 
> lack of time, computer skills, or awareness of risk. Targeting of children by marketing techniques resulted in the 
> release of huge amounts of private information into the market and triggered the need for regulation."
>
> https://epic.org/privacy/kids/
>
> > On Aug 7, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> > > Date: August 7, 2017 at 11:35:33 AM EDT
> > > To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> > > Subject: [ NNSquad ] New data privacy laws will let Brits erase childhood social posts
> > >
> > >
> > > New data privacy laws will let Brits erase childhood social posts
> > >
> > > https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/07/uk-data-protection-bill/
> > >
> > >      The UK's Data Protection Act began looking long in the tooth
> > >    some time ago. It was introduced in 1998 when the internet was
> > >    a very different place, after all, and today the government
> > >    has published more details on the upcoming Data Protection
> > >    Bill, which will update laws to ensure they're fit for the
> > >    hyper-connected era. Delivering on a Conservative Party
> > >    manifesto pledge, the bill will introduce a new right for
> > >    people to instruct social networks to delete anything they
> > >    posted before the age of 18.  This has been called the "right
> > >    to innocence," and will mean you can more easily purge social
> > >    media activity that's embarrassing or no longer reflects you
> > >    as an adult. The power is part of a bigger expansion of
> > >    existing "right to be forgotten" laws.  Currently, you can
> > >    only request that personal information be deleted -- removed
> > >    from Google search results, for example -- if it causes
> > >    significant distress, such as details of a petty crime you
> > >    committed as a kid that are still following you decades later.
> > >
> > > - - -
> > >
> > > Mostly a pile of typical EU rot. If they're public postings, they're
> > > public. Get used to it. You can try delete them, but mirrors are
> > > everywhere even beyond the reach of the censorship-loving EU with
> > > their "Right To Be Forgotten" garbage, and there will be more -- many
> > > more. Trying to delete old postings will in fact be the best way to
> > > draw attention to them. Welcome to the 21st century, boys and girls.
> > > Keep in mind, it's the brilliant bureaucrats of the EU who came up
> > > with utterly useless "This site uses cookies do you understand, huh,
> > > really, do you, we think you're a moron so we'll keep asking" banners.
> > > And remember, they're trying to impose their vast censorship and data
> > > control regimes GLOBALLY.
> > >
> > > --Lauren--
> >
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