The “right to be forgotten” – perhaps better characterized as a right to de-index – has been a hotly debated privacy issue for well over a decade now, pitting those that argue that the harms that may come from the amplification of outdated but accurate content outweighs the benefits of maintaining such content in search indexes. The issue gets its start in Europe, but the Canadian experience has featured privacy commissioner findings and investigations alongside court rulings and provincial reforms.
Kris Klein is one of Canada’s leading legal experts on privacy, access to information and information security issues. He is the founder and managing partner of nNovation LLP, a leading boutique firm specializing in data protection, the Managing Director of IAPP Canada, and teaches the Privacy Law course at my faculty at the University of Ottawa. He joins me on the Law Bytes podcast to discuss the background behind the right to be forgotten, the recent OPC finding, and what may lie ahead on the issue.
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The right to be forgotten goes against the basic understanding of fact checking what anyone human is really like. The right to be remembered seems a bigger issue as the right to be remembered helps in the understanding of historical references of ones written input to the greater internet of things. The right to be forgotten is a drop out to the understanding of historical reference .
And if I might add that the right to be forgotten leaves a misguided understanding of history similar to book burning from the medieval times . Personally over the years I have watched and listened to the ideas and worries of those that would like to implement a social credit system along with a digital currency but this idea and general premise of an idea is not feasible if the right to be forgotten is allowed to take place. I get it ! Some people feel embarrassed by past posts and maybe rightfully so. But that is no reason to allow for the right to be forgotten as that would make fact checking one person impossible if Google cannot find it? Actually what they should do is leave all information derogatory or not to remain indefinitely as it might help the banking industry and business regardless of where on the planet have a better understanding of who they are dealing with and by having a better idea this might help reduce losses for the banks.
I have talked or written on this subject over the years but it is now hard to find in a Google search hence the reason I feel the answer is to let all input to remain in perpetuity.And if it cannot be found I look to AI with the understanding that AI is quite seriously flawed if it cannot.
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