Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
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Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#2Should anybody? This could be used to remove accountability, and certainly will.
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#3Genuine question: Who benefits when everything we ever do, say, etc. is permanently recorded on a grand, systemtic level?
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#4I really hate the 'right to be forgotten'... it infringes on other people's 'right to remember'
I should be able to talk about my experience with someone else in a public forum, even if that information is something that person doesn't want others to know.
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#5I really hate the 'right to be forgotten'... it infringes on other people's 'right to remember' I should be able to talk about my experience with someone else in a public forum, even if that information is something that person doesn't want others to know.
> I should be able to talk about my experience with someone else in a public forum, even if that information is something that person doesn't want others to know.
Europe right to be forgotten only applies to publicly indexed searches, not the content - according to the top court
Nothing you said seems to be the reality that exists
So just bookmark a page and revisit it later, the tools have existed since the 90s
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#6> Fearing a court could potentially order "politically or religiously sensitive material" be removed, Gratton says she's "not a big fan of the right to be forgotten."
What is religiously sensitive material?
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#7I really hate the 'right to be forgotten'... it infringes on other people's 'right to remember' I should be able to talk about my experience with someone else in a public forum, even if that information is something that person doesn't want others to know.
> I should be able to talk about my experience with someone else in a public forum, even if that information is something that person doesn't want others to know. Europe right to be forgotten only applies to publicly indexed searches, not the content - according to the top court Nothing you said seems to be the reality that exists So just bookmark a page and revisit it later, the tools have existed since the 90s
But if there were more people like Kim Peek who could recall anything they read, like a walking, talking, search engine, should they be muzzled online?
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#8Should anybody? This could be used to remove accountability, and certainly will.
I was thinking about the right to be forgotten just the other day. It reminds me of the line "democracy is the worst form of government, except from all of the others which we've tried".
Imagine a young person who gets wrapped up in some illegal activity. 30 years later settled down with a wife and kids he goes for a job interview and the person across the desk happens to have googled his name. That to me doesn't feel fair, people should have the ability to avoid their past haunting them forever.
Pre-internet the problem was naturally solved. The interviewer could have dug back through all of the local newspapers and happened upon an article but that's incredibly unlikely. Maybe if he was running for public office it might be uncovered.
The other side is that politicians and millionaires can use it to hide their dirty secrets. Nothing is perfect though so maybe that is the price we pay.
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I should be able to talk about my experience with someone else in a public forum, even if that information is something that person doesn't want others to know. Europe right to be forgotten only applies to publicly indexed searches, not the content - according to the top court Nothing you said seems to be the reality that exists So just bookmark a page and revisit it later, the tools have existed since the 90s
But if there were more people like Kim Peek who could recall anything they read, like a walking, talking, search engine, should they be muzzled online?
If what they say breaks a law yes. For example in the UK the rehabilitation of offenders act means that once a crime is spent it is an offence to discuss publish information about the crime. This is a classic instance where right to be forgotten is used.
Re: Europeans have a 'right to be forgotten' online. Should Canadians?
#10Should anybody? This could be used to remove accountability, and certainly will.
Lot's of things can be used for bad things like cars and knives. There are checks in place so information that is important for society is not forgotten.