Internet forget me
By Sumir Singh

BBC has an interesting report on a new law promising internet users the "right to be forgotten" which will be proposed by the European Commission on Wednesday.

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Details of the revised law were unveiled by the Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, at the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference in Munich.

A spokesman for the commissioner clarified that the action was designed to help teenagers and young adults manage their online reputations.

"These rules are particularly aimed at young people as they are not always as aware as they could be about the consequence of putting photos and other information on social network websites, or about the various privacy settings available," said Matthew Newman.

He noted that this could cause problems later if the users had no way of deleting embarrassing material when applying for jobs. However, he stressed that it would not give them the right to ask for material such as their police or medical records to be deleted.

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