PogoWasRight.org

Menu
  • About
  • Privacy
Menu

The right to be forgotten, or how to edit your history

Posted on February 1, 2012 by pogowasright.org

Peter Fleischer writes:

The “Right to be Forgotten” is a very successful political slogan. Like all successful political slogans, it is like a Rorschach test. People can see in it what they want. The debate would sound quite different if the slogan were actually something more descriptive, for example, the “right to delete”. The European Commission has now proposed to make the “right to be forgotten” into a law. It’s a big step to turn a vague political slogan into a law. The time for vague slogans must now give way to a more practical discussion of how the “right to be forgotten” could actually work.

Read more on Peter Fleischer: Privacy…?

Category: MiscOnline

Post navigation

← Official Assails Sharing of Passenger Data
UK: Axel Springer and Von Hannover judgments announced →

Now more than ever

Search

Contact Me

Email: [email protected]

Mastodon: Infosec.Exchange/@PogoWasRight

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

Categories

Recent Posts

  • D.C. Federal Court Rules Termination of Democrat PCLOB Members Is Unlawful
  • Meta may continue to train AI with user data, German court says
  • Widow of slain Saudi journalist can’t pursue surveillance claims against Israeli spyware firm
  • Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
  • GDPR is cracking: Brussels rewrites its prized privacy law
  • Telegram Gave Authorities Data on More than 20,000 Users
  • Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras

RSS Recent Posts on DataBreaches.net

  • B.C. health authority faces class-action lawsuit over 2009 data breach (1)
  • Private Industry Notification: Silent Ransom Group Targeting Law Firms
  • Data Breach Lawsuits Against Chord Specialty Dental Partners Consolidated
  • PA: York County alerts residents of potential data breach
  • FTC Finalizes Order with GoDaddy over Data Security Failures
©2025 PogoWasRight.org. All rights reserved.