As far as government is concerned, they always stored data of citizens long before the arrival of modern technologies.
A few days before the story broke about the National Security Agency mining the data of citizens using Verizon, I walked by a newsstand and saw an issue of Foreign Affairs that had a feature on Big Data.
Still, an elected official in Hamburg, Till Steffen, the senator for justice, said he planned to introduce a bill in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German Parliament, next Friday that would impose fines of €50,000, or $66,000, against Google for every instance where it had failed to eliminate the data of citizens who had opted out of Street View.
The Libe committee has also urged all EU institutions, agencies and bodies to verify that their social media pages, and any analytical and marketing tools they use, "should not by any means put at risk the personal data of citizens".
Smart City applications need to support a variety of city requirements including a continuing lifecycle, incremental evolution, collaboration between diverse city stakeholders, and privacy concerns when working with the personal data of citizens [3].
"When collecting personal data, including through information and the internet telecommunications network, the operator is required to provide a record that the systematization, accumulation, storage, updating and retrieval of personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation, is held on databases located in the territory of the Russian Federation".
Respect the privacy of the citizens, communications, data and personal information of citizens in cyberspace.
This regulation concerns not only EU citizens, but any organization that processes the personal data of EU citizens.
The question of the security of the data of UK citizens is of the utmost importance.
Then, each response goes through multiple legal reviews to redact privacy data of U.S. citizens.
In September, Kommersant reported that Apple had rented space in Russia to house the data of Russian citizens.
