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One thing that should be considered is the right for an individual to be forgotten.

freshhawk 10y ago
Forgotten by whom? Who judges what is "forgotten" and when? How is it enforced? The specifics here matter a great deal, the versions so far are regularly abused by the wealthy and don't apply to any of the data warehouses that the powerful and well connected have access to. Where did this "right" come from? What's the legal and ethical basis for it? It is analogous to censorship or book burning at the basic level, destroying information to hide it from the public. It requires a consistent and strong justification as well as justified limited scope because of that, and it better be obviously beneficial to society even accounting for the inevitable misuse by those in power.
- beejiu 10y ago
  There is a legal basis in the European Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
  - merb 10y ago
    and the legal basis is pretty fluffy: - http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/bgh-grundsatzurteil-namen-der-sedlmayr-moerder-bleiben-online-1.144087 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/bgh-grundsatzurteil-namen... - http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/bgh-urteil-keine-staendige-kontrolle-von-online-archiven_aid_463464.html http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/bgh-urteil-keine-staend... it's german, but basically it says: "This is not a blank check".
TeMPOraL 10y ago
In my (current) opinion, it's this law that should be forgotten. What's on the public Internet is a matter of public interest. All I can see is this law being used by bad people to hide their bad deeds, especially when those bad deeds should be known.
- Senderman 10y ago
  At the risk of going off-topic, I loved your usage of the word 'current' before 'opinion', and I'm going to adopt it.
driverdan 10y ago
That's not a thing outside the EU.
bigbugbag 10y ago
What about it ? do you want us to burn down the national archives that have a copy of every newspaper and are open to public ? Guess what! the internet gives you access to your own press, allows to write into other newspapers where possible and archive.org get an archive of this public publishing. The right of an individual to be forgotten is hardly prevalent on human history or obligation to remember.

Forgotten by whom? Who judges what is "forgotten" and when? How is it enforced? The specifics here matter a great deal, the versions so far are regularly abused by the wealthy and don't apply to any of the data warehouses that the powerful and well connected have access to. Where did this "right" come from? What's the legal and ethical basis for it? It is analogous to censorship or book burning at the basic level, destroying information to hide it from the public. It requires a consistent and strong justification as well as justified limited scope because of that, and it better be obviously beneficial to society even accounting for the inevitable misuse by those in power.

beejiu 10y ago
There is a legal basis in the European Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
- merb 10y ago
  and the legal basis is pretty fluffy: - http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/bgh-grundsatzurteil-namen-der-sedlmayr-moerder-bleiben-online-1.144087 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/bgh-grundsatzurteil-namen... - http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/bgh-urteil-keine-staendige-kontrolle-von-online-archiven_aid_463464.html http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/bgh-urteil-keine-staend... it's german, but basically it says: "This is not a blank check".

TeMPOraL 10y ago

In my (current) opinion, it's this law that should be forgotten. What's on the public Internet is a matter of public interest. All I can see is this law being used by bad people to hide their bad deeds, especially when those bad deeds should be known.

Senderman 10y ago
At the risk of going off-topic, I loved your usage of the word 'current' before 'opinion', and I'm going to adopt it.

driverdan 10y ago

That's not a thing outside the EU.

bigbugbag 10y ago

What about it ? do you want us to burn down the national archives that have a copy of every newspaper and are open to public ? Guess what! the internet gives you access to your own press, allows to write into other newspapers where possible and archive.org get an archive of this public publishing. The right of an individual to be forgotten is hardly prevalent on human history or obligation to remember.