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Some countries have a concept of a right to be forgotten. After a certain amount of time passes, information about criminal convictions is no longer public; dis
by Zak 5y ago
Some countries have a concept of a right to be forgotten. After a certain amount of time passes, information about criminal convictions is no longer public; disseminating such information is generally illegal; making employment decisions based on it is also illegal.
It's not airtight, but it wouldn't need to be to alleviate the problem. It would restrict what mainstream background check providers could offer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
- chrisseaton 5y agoSounds a bit dystopian requiring everyone to pretend that a trial never took place when people know it did?
- mjevans 5y agoIt is dystopian to be sentenced to social death without any chance of reform. All the more so if we can ever figure out the medical stuff and live a lot longer and/or repair injury and defect that might hinder rational thought. There's got to be a method for redemption and being recognized as redeemed. The issue today is that hiring processes are not really fair, they can't be objectively run with subjective measures and random entropy pools. If hiring were fair and redeemed people treated the same as never convicted people then there wouldn't be a need for the EU's current bandaid.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> There's got to be a method for redemption and being recognized as redeemed. Surely forgiveness, rather than feigned amnesia?
- mLuby 5y ago"To err is human; to forgive, divine." As is obvious from the attitudes in this thread, legally enforced amnesia is the only practical solution.