Forgetting, non-forgetting and quasi-forgetting in social networking
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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00authored byColin 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.
History
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