Much has been said and is being talked about personal data and the privacy we have on the Internet, on websites, social networks, and other platforms. Our data is floating around, traversing forms and KYC processes, profiles and other contact sites.
In addition, we are leaving our trail of cookies, the famous cookies, also almost always the location from where we are looking out into this digital world, our IP, and thus advertisements of things that we talk about at home, and advertising emails, and even commercial calls that we neither want nor expect.
Other problems may also arise, now many people are considering, for example, the purchase of cryptocurrencies in a more anonymous way, there is an increasing reluctance to pass more or less complex identity verification processes.
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Sometimes this conscious delivery of data is unavoidable in order to do many of the things we intend or need. And other times we simply do it by our will, we write articles recounting moments of our life or describing beautiful corners of our city...
Perhaps the most annoying problem or issue is the use that companies make of all this data, this Big Data and metadata and the sale of data from one company to another... for their sole interest and benefit in many cases.
But there are certain rights, the well-known "right to be forgotten" as well as the right to delete or rectify our data, so we can somehow intervene in how we want companies to treat our data or if we want them to stop doing so. Although sometimes it is very difficult to control all our data that we share, right?
Have you exercised these rights? In Europe, there is a European Regulation that regulates all this matter, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which in turn is developed in each country, with its own law, in the case of Spain it is the Organic Law of Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD). We also have the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) where you can get information, and we can even download a form in case we need to more officially exercise any of our rights in this regard.
In fact, companies are well aware of this matter, in many emails we can always see the “disclaimer” part with the subject of data protection at the bottom of the page, because they are aware that a breach in this matter carries very serious sanctions.
It is true that some people have exercised their "right to be forgotten" against Google, because they do not want their data to remain indexed forever by the global search engine. I must say that in my case, I have never had to urgently resort to these procedures, but in some daily situation I have written to a company with which I have never had a business relationship or I have had but in the past, and for therefore, it was no longer relevant and I have written them an email, requesting the cancellation of my data based on such legislation. Curiously, I usually receive a response, quite immediate, in which they notify me that they have complied with such a request. The way to verify it is complex, but in general, seeing that you do not receive communications from this company, for example, could be an indication, and as I said, due to the specific regulation of all this, they take these digital rights very seriously and do not also digital and the processing of our data that we should all keep in mind.
Are you concerned about how they treat your personal data, what do they use it for? What experience do you have?
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