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Forgetting, non-forgetting and quasi-forgetting in social networking

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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Colin J Bennett, Christopher Parsons, Adam Molnar
In this paper we analyze some of the practical realities around deleting personal data on social networks with respect to the Canadian regime of privacy protection. We first discuss the extent to which Canadian privacy law imposes access, deletion, and retention requirements on data brokers. After this discussion we turn to corporate organizational practices. Our analyses of social networking sites’ privacy policies reveal how poorly companies recognize the right to be have one’s personal information deleted in their existing privacy commitments and practices. Next, we turn to Law Enforcement Authorities (LEAs) and how their practices challenge the deletion requirements because of LEAs’ own capture, processing, and retention of social networking information. We conclude by identifying lessons from the Canadian experience and raising them against the intense transatlantic struggle over the scope of deletion of data stored in cloud-based computing infrastructures.

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Chapter number

3

Pagination

41-59

ISBN-13

9789400775404

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1.1 Book chapter

Extent

16

Editor/Contributor(s)

Gutwirth S, Leenes R, de Hert P

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Berlin, Germany

Title of book

Reloading data protection : multidisciplinary insights and contemporary challenges

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