But the right to be forgotten also gives people the right to demand the removal of embarrassing information that others post about them, regardless of its source, unless Google or Facebook can prove to a European regulator that the information is part of a legitimate journalistic, literary, or artistic exercise. This would transform Facebook and Google from neutral platforms into global censors and would clash directly with the principle, embedded in U.S. free-speech law, that people can’t be restricted from publishing embarrassing but truthful information." Read more
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The Right to Be Forgotten
Rosen, Jeffrey. "The Right to Be Forgotten." The Atlantic, July 3, 2012.
From the article : "Soon, citizens around the world may have the ability to
selectively delete themselves from the Internet. At the beginning of this year,
Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights, and
citizenship, proposed codifying a sweeping version of the right to be forgotten
in European data-protection law. The proposal is being strenuously resisted by
Facebook and by Google, which could be liable for up to 1 percent of its $37.9
billion annual income if it fails to remove photos or other data that people
post about themselves and later think better of, even if the data have been
broadly shared.
But the right to be forgotten also gives people the right to demand the removal of embarrassing information that others post about them, regardless of its source, unless Google or Facebook can prove to a European regulator that the information is part of a legitimate journalistic, literary, or artistic exercise. This would transform Facebook and Google from neutral platforms into global censors and would clash directly with the principle, embedded in U.S. free-speech law, that people can’t be restricted from publishing embarrassing but truthful information." Read more
But the right to be forgotten also gives people the right to demand the removal of embarrassing information that others post about them, regardless of its source, unless Google or Facebook can prove to a European regulator that the information is part of a legitimate journalistic, literary, or artistic exercise. This would transform Facebook and Google from neutral platforms into global censors and would clash directly with the principle, embedded in U.S. free-speech law, that people can’t be restricted from publishing embarrassing but truthful information." Read more
