Editing Privacy (section)

====European Union====
{{Further|Information privacy law#Europe}}

In 2016, the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was intended to reduce the misuse of personal data and enhance individual privacy, by requiring companies to receive consent before acquiring personal information from users.<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1088/1742-6596/1168/3/032084 |title=E-Commerce Consumer Privacy Protection Based on Differential Privacy |date=2019 |last1=Zhong |first1=Guorong |journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series |volume=1168 |issue=3 |page=032084 |bibcode=2019JPhCS1168c2084Z |s2cid=169731837 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Although there are comprehensive regulations for data protection in the European Union, one study finds that despite the laws, there is a lack of enforcement in that no institution feels responsible to control the parties involved and enforce their laws.<ref>Burghardt, Buchmann, Böhm, Kühling, Sivridis ''A Study on the Lack of Enforcement of Data Protection Acts'' Proceedings of the 3rd int. conference on e-democracy, 2009.</ref> The European Union also champions the [[Right to be Forgotten]] concept in support of its adoption by other countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/french-official-campaigns-to-make-right-to-be-forgotten-global/|title=French Official Campaigns to Make 'Right to be Forgotten' Global| author=Mark Scott|date=3 December 2014| publisher=nytimes | access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>