EU Parliament For Data Rights Charter
May 10th, 2010 by adminThe European Parliament has stated that internet users should have the independent ability to request that their personal information and data is removed from any company’s system, even if that personal data was obtained with the user’s consent.
The parliament has approved a new policy called 2015.eu, which summarises the European Parliament’s for internet privacy policy for the next five years. The EU Parliament has already begun this process with the passing of a resolution to affect changes and compel the European Commission to implement and enforce this scheme.
Further to this, the European Parliament stated that every household situated within the boundaries of the European Union should have consistent access to an affordable broadband connection within the next three years. In accordance with the strategy in place, each household must have access to affordable high speed broadband by 2020.
The Parliament’s resolution has founded the policy’s aim to have complete and cost effective broadband coverage by 2013, and to enable mobile phone user’s affordable access to 3G networks by 2015.
The European Parliament’s strategy calls on the European Commission to endorse rapid growth in the domestic broadband and mobile network market place and ensure the law is amended from last years Telecoms Reform into the national law of the 27 Member States of the European Union.
