الخصوصية على الانترنت

للمرة الأولى سيحصل سكان دول الاتحاد الأوربي على ما يسمى "حق النسيان". فوفقا لتغييرات جديدة أعلنت عنها المفوضية الأوربية، سيتمكن الناس من أن يطلبوا من شركة ما أن تشطب كل المعطيات حولهم في الانترنت.

Just how much control should people have over their online reputations سمعتهم? Should they be able to demand that an unflattering رديئة photo be permanently deleted شطبت from a website like Facebook? Does everything people write online have to stay there? What about bank details, addresses - can websites hold onto this information forever?

These were the kinds of questions being asked by the European Commission as it investigated حققت the issue of internet privacy خصوصية. It's guiding principle المبادئ التوجيهية throughout has been what it called 'the right to be forgotten'. It has now decided on what this mysterious غامضةsounding phrase actually means.

It means that a person does have the right to demand their personal information be permanently deleted if it is data that they themselves have put online. But they don't have the right to have things like unflattering blogs مدوناتor newspaper profiles written by others deleted.

The EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said the changes will help build trust يبني الثقة in online services:

The Commission also says that businesses should have to tell their customers within 24 hours if their online accounts have been hacked into يخترق.

Some internet companies have reacted with concern to the proposals warning that they could become bogged down in trying to meet the new requirements and that could affect their ability to grow.

Question: هل يجب تطبيق مثل هذه القانون على الصعيد الدولي؟

سمعة

reputations

رديئة

unflattering

شطب

deleted

حققت

investigated

الخصوصية

privacy

المبادئ التوجيهية

guiding principle

غامض

mysterious

مدونات

blogs

يبني الثقة

build trust

يخترق

hacked into