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So, what laws should we propose from the IT community? + Ownership about your own data. + The right to be forgotten. + The right to use your own data in your

• ThePhysicist 10y ago
  Yes those are very good points, and they are actually contained in the EU data protection directive: * You have the right to know exactly what a company knows about you, for which purposes it uses that information, and how it processes it. * You have the right to revoke a company's permission to process/store your personal data, and a right to have your data erased (there are some exceptions though) * You have the right to obtain a digital copy of all your personal data (including data that was generated through your behavior, e.g. by clicking on "Like" on Facebook) in a common machine-readable format, and also to have that data transferred to another company if you wish so (this should make it easier to change providers) * You have the right to know (actually you even need to be told beforehand) for which purposes your data will be used and by whom it will be used. If you should be subjected to a fully-automated decision making process (e.g. your credit score gets calculated algorithmically) you have the right to know which kind of algorithms are used in the process and how their internal logic is structured.