> 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" t

> 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.