Welcome to bbc news. Companies will be forced to reveal just how much personal information they have about you under plans announced by the government. The new laws will give you more control over the amount of personal data held online. People will also be able to Ask Companies to delete personal data, including content that they posted as children. Firms who dont comply could face massive fines. Heres our Technology Correspondent rory cellan jones. 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. 2 there will be an end to tick boxes on websites which
Welcome to bbc news. Companies will be forced to reveal just how much personal information they have about you under plans announced by the government. The new laws will give you more control over the amount of personal data held online. People will also be able to Ask Companies to delete personal data, including content that they posted as children. Firms who dont comply could face massive fines. Heres our Technology Correspondent rory cellan jones. 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. 2 there will be an end to tick boxes on websites which
Welcome to bbc news. Companies will be forced to reveal just how much personal information they have about you under plans announced by the government. The new laws will give you more control over the amount of personal data held online. People will also be able to Ask Companies to delete personal data, including content that they posted as children. Firms who dont comply could face massive fines. Heres our Technology Correspondent rory cellan jones. 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. 2 there will be an end to tick boxes on websites which
Welcome to bbc news. Companies will be forced to reveal just how much personal information they have about you under plans announced by the government. The new laws will give you more control over the amount of personal data held online. People will also be able to Ask Companies to delete personal data, including content that they posted as children. Firms who dont comply could face massive fines. Heres our Technology Correspondent rory cellan jones. 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. 2 there will be an end to tick boxes on websites which
Welcome to bbc news. Companies will be forced to reveal just how much personal information they have about you under plans announced by the government. The new laws will give you more control over the amount of personal data held online. People will also be able to Ask Companies to delete personal data, including content that they posted as children. Firms who dont comply could face massive fines. Heres our Technology Correspondent rory cellan jones. 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. 2 there will be an end to tick boxes on websites which