Thursday announced recommendations to update privacy laws that could make it easier for consumers to delete information about them on the Internet and beef up enforcement for Web sites that violate laws.
In its paper, the E.U.'s data protection authorities said its recommendations are aimed to creating new privacy laws in 2011. After a review of its more than 15-year-old privacy laws, regulators said new laws have to take into account questions about how data is protected on social networks such as Facebook and cloud computing applications such as Google's e-mail and documents.
"The protection of personal data is a fundamental right," said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship. "To guarantee this right, we need clear and consistent data protection rules. We also need to bring our laws up to date with the challenges raised by new technologies and globalization."
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