Intorduce a GDPR similar policy to protect individual user data.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union law that regulates the processing of personal data within the EU. It gives individuals more control over their personal data and sets stricter requirements for businesses that handle that data
Key aspects of the GDPR:
Rights of individuals:
- Access: Individuals have the right to access their personal data and obtain a copy.
- Rectification: Individuals can request the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Erasure: Individuals can request the erasure of their personal data under certain circumstances.
-Restriction of processing: Individuals can request the restriction of processing of their personal data under certain circumstances.
-Data portability: Individuals can request the transfer of their personal data to another organization in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Object to processing: Individuals can object to the processing of their personal data for certain purposes, such as direct marketing.
- Right to be informed: Individuals have the right to be informed about the processing of their personal data.
- Right to be forgotten: Individuals can request the erasure of their personal data under certain circumstances.
Responsibilities of businesses:
-Data protection by design and by default: Businesses must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that personal data is processed in a manner that respects individuals' rights and freedoms.
- Data breach notification: Businesses must notify the relevant supervisory authority and affected individuals of any personal data breach without undue delay.
-Data protection officer: Businesses must appoint a data protection officer in certain cases.
- Data transfer: Businesses must comply with strict rules for transferring personal data outside the EU.
Enforcement:
- Supervisory authorities: Each EU member state has a supervisory authority responsible for enforcing the GDPR.
-Fines: Supervisory authorities can impose fines of up to €20 million or 4% of a business's global annual turnover, whichever is higher, for serious violations of the GDPR.
Key principles:
- Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently.
- Purpose limitation: Personal data must be collected for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not processed further in a manner incompatible with those purposes.
- Data minimization: Personal data must be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
- Accuracy: Personal data must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up-to-date.
- Storage limitation: Personal data must not be kept for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed.
- Integrity and confidentiality: Personal data must be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss or destruction.
The GDPR has had a significant impact on businesses around the world, as it requires them to implement more robust data protection measures and to be more transparent about their data practices.
How would this policy work in the United State of America?
First and formost this policy would protect Social Media users from companies collecting theor personal images, messages, and shared media to train AI systems unless clearly consented by the user. This would be an opt-in required system. In the absence of consent the user is automatically protected.
Second, this policy would protect individuals from unlawful search and sesire for counter-governmwnt sentiment (except in cases of planned terrorism). In accordance with the 1st Amendment of the Consitution US Citizens have the right to free speach.
Third, this policy would be used to prevent facial recognition programing from collecting, without authorization, lawful citizen images for a national or local database.