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'Augmented reality' a-la Google: 'You're never lonely ... you're never bored ... you're never out of ideas' (Photo: Spencer E Holtaway)

EU to press for 'right to be forgotten' online

The EU is in the process of revamping its data privacy rules dating back to 1995 so as to encompass social networks, online data aggregators and the way prosecutors and policemen across the bloc handle personal records.

The Facebook generation knows it. Everything you've posted online can and will be used against you at some point. People have been fired for the party pictures or unthoughtful jokes they've posted online.

Deleting a Facebook account does not help. According to th...

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'Augmented reality' a-la Google: 'You're never lonely ... you're never bored ... you're never out of ideas' (Photo: Spencer E Holtaway)

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