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Data protection legislation is, and always has been, about your ability to control information that's about you. Winston Smith's job was about controlling infor
by SEMW 12y ago
Data protection legislation is, and always has been, about your ability to control information that's about you. Winston Smith's job was about controlling information that's about other people. Do you really think that's a distinction without a difference?
- venomsnake 12y agoNo. But it sets dangerous precedent about what truth is. And we all know how all of this stuff creeps. But if a court can mandate something to be forgotten, what prevents the next case of mandating what could be altered. Does an author have a right his bad books to be forgotten and to claim that he has only bestsellers? Do I have a right to be forgotten about my previous to last disatrous project and only for the last one that was stellar. Does Obama have a right healthcare.gov roll out to be forgotten? Does Bill Clinton and Monica have that right too? This is rewriting history.
- SEMW 12y ago> we all know how all of this stuff creeps. Implying that there's a slippery slope to get from "I can control a company's use of information that's about me" to Winston Smith's job - controlling information about other people - is like saying that suicide being legal is a slippery slope to murder being legal. After all, it's just a difference between me doing it to myself and me doing it to other people, right? > But if a court can mandate something to be forgotten, what prevents the next case of mandating what could be altered. You're forgetting the context of this, which is data protection legislation. The court isn't "mandating something to be forgotten". It's letting someone enforce a right to object to a company processing data relating to them.