Internet Privacy Rights

Internet Privacy Rights analyses the current threats to our online autonomy and privacy and proposes a new model for the gathering retention and use of personal data. Key to the model is the development of specific privacy rights: a right to roam the internet with privacy a right to monitor the monitors a right to delete personal data and a right to create assert and protect an online identity. These rights could help in the formulation of more effective and appropriate legislation and shape more privacy-friendly business models. The conclusion examines how the internet might look with these rights in place and whether such an internet could be sustainable from both a governmental and a business perspective.