pimg src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45631000/jpg/_45631085_meps-eyewire226.jpg.jpg" align="left" width="226" height="170" alt="Hard drive, Eyewire" border="0" vspace="4" hspace="4"/pp class="first"b Organisations tracking net use should themselves be monitored, say MEPs./bp The Euro-MPs overwhelmingly backed a statement which called on governments to list internet watching organisations and report on what they do. /pp The reports would name and shame organisations carrying out illegal or disproportionate amounts of surveillance. /pp The MEPs want governments to rein in industry and criminal attempts to view digital communications. /pp The statement backed by the Euro-MPs drew attention to the risks citizens face as their web browsing habits are subject to greater surveillance by either companies or governments. /pp It recommended a recognition of the quot;danger of certain forms of internet surveillance and control aimed also at tracking every 'digital' step of an individual, with the aim of providing a profile of the user and of assigning 'scores'.quot; /pp Those that overstep the permissions a user's grant, or break laws governing what can be done with personal data, should suffer penalties quot;proportionate to the infringements committedquot; said the politicians. /pp The MEPs also want greater attention paid to the quot;consentquot; agreements users are asked to agree to before using websites. Often these lead to people relinquishing control over their private information, warned the statement. /pp Websites should also be scrutinised to ensure that requests to delete personal data are carried out thoroughly. /pp It also wanted governments to draw up well-defined lists of the circumstances in which websites will be asked to hand over personal data to law enforcement organisations. /pp The statement declared: quot;the overriding interest of protecting citizens' fundamental rights should determine the limits and precise circumstances under which such technologies may be used by public authorities or companiesquot;. /pp Finally, the text called on governments to do more to protect children from online abuse. It also wants the European Commission to combat hi-tech crime and ID theft./phrpThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk"BBC News website/a. #169; British Broadcasting Corporation/pdiv class="feedflare"
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