The Us regulator FTC wants that so-called dataverhandelaars and datamakelaars be subject to more stringent privacyregulering by the government. At the same time, the rules for small businesses to be eased.
The Us FTC wants datamakelaars, companies and agencies that personal and financial information collect and trade, provide access to all collected information. The people from whom data is collected should also be given the opportunity to correct the information and update. That would be necessary because the large volume of data that companies collect, not to control.
The head of a internet company, notes that the legislation is not too wide, because according to him ‘such practices on the basis of the digital economy’. For the same reason, also want the FTC to limit the legislation; businesses that collect data from less than five thousand people, and the data is not sold to third parties, would not be to the regulation subject. Also, if a website only collects information which is relevant within the context of the website, for example, the aankoophistorie at a webshop, it would be the regulation is not in force.
Furthermore, websites and internet businesses the ‘Do Not Track’button is actually to implement. If this is not voluntarily done, would the FTC impose additional obligations. This means that option according to the FTC that there is no data to be collected and, therefore, not only that the data may not be used.