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I hope that for your own sake, you are never in a position where you are unable to find work because employers stumble across false allegations made against you
by cirno 7y ago
I hope that for your own sake, you are never in a position where you are unable to find work because employers stumble across false allegations made against you that are shown as the top result for your name on Google search.
Because that's a very real thing that happens to a large number of people who have made enemies through ex-lovers, jilted coworkers, and just garden variety online trolls that maybe didn't take kindly to a random post you made online somewhere.
- holstvoogd 7y agoWhile one might want to remove false allegations by an ex, the next might call an expose of their corruption as a local politician false allegations. As with many things, it is all a double edged sword. Medical confidentiality? Great! Until the patient is a commercial pilot, the doctor his psych that tells him he should not be flying and the pilot decides to not tell his boss and fly his plane with everyone aboard into a mountain... (Happened a few years back) We have to balance risks & rewards with these kinds of laws.
- Tomte 7y agoAnd how do you balance those? With the right to be forgotten and a court decision whether it applies in the special case. Your solution is "give everyone unlimited access", but that's not a balancing, that's an extreme position.
- Dylan16807 7y agoIt doesn't apply to public figures. And you need a lot of medical confidentiality or you make people afraid to go to psychologists at all, and everyone is worse off.
- jimbob45 7y agoYou're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Psychologists are one instance where medical confidentiality would help. Making people make a trip to their local clinic to hear the results of their X-ray of their broken leg because nurses can't tell you anything over the phone is fucking asinine. Surely, there are shades of gray here to be recognized.
- cameronbrown 7y agoWe need laws making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of unproven allegations.
- cirno 7y agoYes, but you can't prove why you never get a callback from a job application.
- cameronbrown 7y agoIt didn't stop us making it illegal to discriminate against other races/religions in this exact same scenario.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 7y agoGood luck bringing a case about that w.r.t. a job interview.
- knorker 7y agoYeah, I hope so too. But unlike the downvoters (including you?) I'm not willing to throw freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, and the right to know the past all out the window for this. This is book-burning on a massive scale. When you retire and write your memoirs you will not be allowed to put in true facts that you can prove. If the right to be forgotten is indeed a right, then that story you wrote about "you show me yours I'll show you mine" justifies busting in to the home of everyone who bought your book in order to put in on the bonfire. It's as if your life is under a national security gag order, and you'll never be allowed to tell what you did not just in the CIA, but anywhere with anyone. > Because that's a very real thing that happens to a large number of people who have made enemies through ex-lovers, jilted coworkers, and just garden variety online trolls that maybe didn't take kindly to a random post you made online somewhere. There are already laws against the actions I think you're implying here.