In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Dutch Data Protection Authority and Article 29 Working Party Chairman Jacob Kohnstamm discusses the European view of privacy, the current do-not-track debate and the status of the European Commission's proposed data protection framework. When asked about the "right to be forgotten," Kohnstamm said that, "fundamentally, behind the principle of the right to be forgotten is this idea that you shouldn't judge a child on its childish behaviour 20 years later." Kohnstamm has recently spoken out to several large Internet companies to respect European privacy regulations.
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