Americans who go on the internet and engage on social media don’t have privacy rights that residents elsewhere do. “Europeans have laws in place that give the consumer – you – the right to esstentially delete yourself from the internet, or at least at a minimum the social media sites and servers. We don’t have something the equivalent of that here in the U.S.,” says internet security specialist Robert Siciliano.
Online privacy is an ever increasing concern for Americans as social media platforms make determinations of whose speech is protected and whose is not; what can be said and what cannot. Last weekend the European Union agreed to the Digital Services Act, making it easier for European online users to have some control over the personal information data accumulating in servers across the globe. “They themselves, the consumer, is the actual product, so their information is being bought and sold worldwide. There really is no privacy as you might think there is,” Siciliano suggests.
Your health care records. Is someone reading them and deciding how much of a risk you are to their bottom line? Possibly. Hard to say.
While attention is being drawn for the rights of sovereignty at the nation’s borders, the world wild web is an online community that doesn’t have borders. “Without a doubt the internet itself really is open borders,” he says.
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