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User ID: 3760046 United States 01/24/2012 08:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Europe Weighs Tough Law on Online Privacy [ link to www.nytimes.com] Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook to obtain explicit consent from consumers about the use of their personal data, delete that data forever at the consumer’s request and face fines for failing to comply. Malte Spitz, a German advocate for strict data protection. The proposed data protection regulation from the European Commission, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, could have significant consequences for all Internet companies that trade in personal data, whether it is pictures that people post on social networks or what they buy on retail sites or look for on a search engine. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
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User ID: 3760046 United States 01/24/2012 08:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Europe Weighs Tough Law on Online Privacy Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8958455 You looking forward to it? Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
We can never shed our sins and regrets, only accumulate more, a burden that we grow and carry until our deaths. The best we can do is learn to live with ourselves, to accommodate our pasts |