EU protects your privacy now also during the whatsappen – Time

The consumer gets more control over the use of cookies and data.

Users have to decide for yourself how much privacy protection they want the internet. Their privacy on WhatsApp or on online gaming as well guaranteed as a phone call.

That are the most well-known proposals from a package digital law that the European Commission Tuesday proposed.

Consent

verregaandste proposal is the extension of the privacy law for telecommunications services to all web services, such as WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Facetime and Skype.

That means that users have the right to not give permission for the use of their data. This is not only to the content of a message or a call, but also to the protection of the metadata, such as the place or the time of a call or the author of an e-mail.

92 percent of Europeans feel that their computer, smartphone or tablet is not accessible may be without permission.

According to the European Commission, 92 percent of the Europeans that the information on their computer, smartphone and tablet is not accessible may be without their permission. As many Europeans think that the confidentiality of e-mails and online messages must be guaranteed .

The new rules of the Commission to determine that data is destroyed or made anonymous must be like a user permission refuses. For cases that the privacy is not affected, such as the storage of messages in electronic shopping carts, no permission is needed.

Use of cookies

82 percent of the Europeans will also find that consent is required for the use of cookies, which are activities of users of online platforms to monitor. Now, a consumer for each visit to a website, the question of whether cookies are allowed. To get access to the website, he clicks often conveniently 'yes'.

The European Commission wants users to choose a level of protection determine, which cookies are not to come up.

The European Commission wants users to choose a level of protection determine, which cookies are not to come up. The browsers need to watch about the chosen profile. The user will, on a case by case still are able to authorise.

Advertentieblokkers

So about 200 million people use advertentieblokkers. Media companies can provide users with such a adblokkers block, says vice-president for the Digital Agenda Andrus Ansip. “If users want, they have to pay.'

The Commission also draws the ability to phone numbers to block spam (mails, messages). She suggests that member states enter a list in which consumers can indicate that they do not want to be contacted for commercial purposes.

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