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What about when it's news articles? Should people have a right to control those that might contain their name?
by Kalium 3y ago
What about when it's news articles? Should people have a right to control those that might contain their name?
- mgbmtl 3y agoI think the problem is not so much the news article, but that it pops up front and centre when doing a trivial search. Also, considering the low levels of alphabetization, most people won't even bother reading the article, just the (often clickbait) snippet. I'm not blaming the newspaper, I'm saying search results should be held to higher standards.
- criddell 3y agoSometimes yes, sometimes no. You could be arrested tomorrow in a case of mistaken identity. Every time somebody searches for “Kalium”, the first result might be details about how you were arrested for some terrible crime and the follow-up a few day later about how charges were dropped would rank way lower because that never made the front page.
- bdzr 3y agoSo who decides if an individual person has the right to be forgotten?
- Kalium 3y agoYes, that definitely could happen. The question is if I have the right to personally control what random people see if they look up public information about me. I'm not particularly comfortable with the obvious extensions of this. What if I'm a local businessperson doing unpopular things? What if I'm running for office? Where does it start and stop?