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23/12/2008
Data losses 'creating mistrust' |
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An expert has claimed that the recent high profile data losses are undermining people's trust in an organisation's ability to hold their personal information securely.
Ian Brown, senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, has suggested that legislative force from the European Union has put internet companies in particular "under a lot of legal pressure" and brought an amount of "unwelcome publicity".
His comments come after Yahoo! announced that it is to reduce the length of time that it retains information on its users.
The company will anonymise user log data within 90 days - with limited exceptions for fraud, security and legal obligations - under its new global data retention policy.
In October 1995, the European Commission implemented Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
On April 4th of this year, the Article 29 Working Party published an opinion on search engines, reaffirming the applicability of the European data protection law and recommending a "maximum retention period of six months and indicating that web users must be able to provide consent to the exploitation of their data in particular for profiling purposes".
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