Link: Justice and Home Affairs - Data Protection - News 2006.
Search Engines: The WP continued its deliberations on a long-awaited working paper on search engines, with a view to finalising this work in the course of the next months. As the use of search engines becomes a daily routine for an ever growing number of citizens, the protection of the users’ privacy and the guaranteeing of their rights, such as the right to access to their data and the right to information as provided for by the applicable data protection regulations, remain the core issues of the ongoing debate. Search engines fall under the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC if there are controllers collecting users’ IP addresses or search history information, and therefore have to comply with relevant provisions. These provisions also apply to such controllers who have their headquarters outside the EU, but only an establishment in one of the EU Member States, or who use automated equipment based in one of the Member States for the purposes of processing personal data.
Non mi sorprende... C'e' ancora un dibattito in corso sui diritti dei cittadini a conoscere i dati raccolti, oltre ai diritti previsti dalla regolamentazione (tra cui, ricordo, la cancellazione)...
