Members of the public will be able to Ask Companies to delete information collected, or posted on online and firms found in breach of the rules will be hit with much largerfines. Rory cellan jones reports. Your data, a valuable resource flowing around the world giving companies and governments all sorts of intimate details about how you live your life. Now a new law is supposed to give us all more control. The law reform is an opportunity to keep up with the change in technology. Companies will have more accountability and consumers are going to have more control. The new law includes a right to be forgotten, making it easier to find out what Data Companies hold on you and get it erased. There will be an end to tick boxes on websites which often seek consumers handing over data by default. And the Data Watchdog will be able to Fine Companies up to £70 million, or 4 of their global turnover. The new law is almost entirely based on a major new European Data protection regulation that co
Playwright is best known for his shows about the middle class. He is now entering the world of Science Fiction forfirst time. Now entering the world of Science Fiction for first time. His new play debuts at the Edinburgh Festival today. It is set 100 is from now when a deadly contagion has separated men from women. It was, i think, an attempt by me to bridge my ageing writing personality to a younger generation, and the way to do that, i thought, was through the medium of Science Fiction. Science fiction is a great leveller. It gives you an even playing field, where you say to your younger audience, now this is a world that i dont know but i have created, and you dont know, and you can inhabit it. I cant enter their world, which is for me as a 78 year old, incomprehensible now. I mean, most of what my grandchildren say is complete gobbledygook. And anything i say is beyond their comprehension. So, here i am at last. A member of the falcons. Is it a concern of yours that the theatre is
Against scotland tomorrow, good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Schools in england are being forced to cut gcse and a level courses in an effort to balance the books, according to a Head Teachers union. The association of scool and College Leaders has warned that Budget Pressures a re leaders has warned that Budget Pressures are causing them to cancel things like school trips. They have said Budget Constraints are driving up said Budget Constraints are driving up class sizes. Lets go to our education correspondent gillian hargreaves, whos at the conference in birmingham. Between now and easter there will be a number of Teaching Union conferences, this morning, Head Teachers in birmingham. Justine greening could have been left in no doubt about how strong their grievances are. Peter woodman at the wheeled school might bea Peter Woodman at the wheeled school might be a head teacher, but he still likes to work at the chalk face, partly because he enjoys it am partly because
Washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im trying to figure out a saturday that wasnt busy in recent memory. Nice to be with you. Im leland vittert. Its the weekend, but President Trump is getting ready for the election mode. We have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the Campaign Trail for some g. O. P. Candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. Ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. Hi, ellison. Hey, leland, President Trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. Hes set to head to tampa on tuesday for a Campaign Rally there. Traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but President Trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. I am going to work very hard. Ill go six or seven days a week
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