Activists are on hunger strike to protest against manipulation of TV images. Thomas Escritt reports
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The EU has announced its intention to ensure that social networking sites such as Facebook routinely offer high standards of privacy. They will recognise the existence of a “right to be forgotten online”. EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has said that she wants to “explicitly clarify that people shall have the right – and not only the possibility — to withdraw their consent to data processing.”
Demonstrators gathered in Budapest on Tuesday to protest Hungary’s controversial media law, in what has been described as the biggest demonstration since the regime change in 1989. Chief organiser, Anna Vamos, said amendments to the media law do not align with EU law. Protesters also condemned provisions allowing the imposition of arbitrary levy fines on media outlets.
Judit Bayer says Hungary’s amendments to media law do not completely eliminate harmful effect of its provisions
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