Richard Allan, talking at a Westminster Media Forum debate entitled, ‘Social media, online privacy and the ‘right to be forgotten’', said that the majority of Facebook’s 500 million users around the world were more concerned that their data, such as photos and videos, remained on the service rather than being deleted.
Allan, who was en route to Brussels to take part in continued discussions on the European Union’s plans to force social networks to completely erase personal data, said that it would be a mistake to amend data protection laws on the basis of a few exceptional cases.
He said that “hard cases make bad law” and that the majority of the people using Facebook want a guarantee that their data will stay on the service, rather run the risk of any of it being deleted.
However, he did admit that the site still needed to “find mechanisms to help in exceptional cases” where data needed to be deleted.
Allan used young people who needed to delete their “youthful expressions” from Facebook when they are older, in order to not have embarrassing comments used against them in job interviews or in any other walk of life – to illustrate what he meant by exceptional cases.
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