> Information wants to be free - even when it's about you. Putting that genie back in the bottle - the right to be forgotten - creates a world that is less free

> Information wants to be free - even when it's about you. Putting that genie back in the bottle - the right to be forgotten - creates a world that is less free. It is accepted (I believe) that it is reasonable that federal judges and police officers don't have publicly published phone numbers, similarly people who have been stalked or threatened or doxed have demonstrated why things shouldn't always be public. I definitely agree that private corporate data silos are no good (since they're essentially public data silos as soon as they're compromised but serve to monetize your privacy by selling it to third parties in the mean time) but I disagree that all data must be free and I am certainly not offended by people's desire to have a modicum of privacy in the modern world... All that said if the monetary value of this data is removed by restricting private usage of it then we'll likely see the equation of value vs. cost for companies storing data shift back to preferring to store as little as possible. Disallowing private data silos may effectively restore a measure of privacy to most people by removing anyone's motivation to collect data.