Ctrl + Z

The Right to Be Forgotten

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20007993
AutoresMeg Leta Jones (autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Data de publicação2016-12-31
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoCtrl + Z (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9781479898718.001.0001
OpenAlexW4393267320
ISBN9781479898718
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22

A gripping insight into the digital debate over data ownership, permanence and policy “This is going on your permanent record!” is a threat that has never held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as democratized as posting a Tweet or making blog. Data about us is created, shared, collected, analyzed, and processed at an overwhelming scale. The damage caused can be severe, affecting relationships, employment, academic success, and any number of other opportunities—and it can also be long lasting. One possible solution to this threat? A digital right to be forgotten, which would in turn create a legal duty to delete, hide, or anonymize information at the request of another user. The highly controversial right has been criticized as a repugnant affront to principles of expression and access, as unworkable as a technical measure, and as effective as trying to put the cat back in the bag. Ctrl+Z breaks down the debate and provides guidance for a way forward. It argues that the existing perspectives are too limited, offering easy forgetting or none at all. By looking at new theories of privacy and organizing the many potential applications of the right, law and technology scholar Meg Leta Jones offers a set of nuanced choices. To help us choose, she provides a digital information life cycle, reflects on particular legal cultures, and analyzes international interoperability. In the end, the right to be forgotten can be innovative, liberating, and globally viable

Computer Science · Freedom of Expression and Defamation · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection