Do You Really Have a Right to be “Forgotten”?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Do You Really Have a Right to be “Forgotten”?
Tim Stahmer, Assorted Stuff, 2020/01/20
Tim Stahmer answers the question in the headline with a somewhat unconvincing "no" based on the fact that it's hard to implement. "Implementation of the GDPR in Europe has been confusing at best," he writes. Maybe, but that's not why we won't be forgotten. There are too many reasons why society as a whole needs to remember that we exist: we might owe money, we might be a wanted criminal, we might have an infectuous disease, etc. It's not that implementation is confusing. It's that we don't actually want to implement it. More...