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The Right to be Forgotten Privacy or Censorship?
October 3, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Here is the description of the talk and discussion questions: Since 2006 the European Union (EU) as supported the idea of the “right to be forgotten” (i.e. to have information about you removed from search engines and specific websites). The EU further entrenched this right in 2012 data protection regulations. Google has been the focus of most of the requests for removals and they have deleted over 1M URLs.
Is the Right to be Forgotten a positive response to a legitimate privacy issue or a dangerous challenge to transparency and openness (i.e. censorship)?
The Right to be Forgotten was widely discussed and supported within the EU
. Why has a similar law not in been considered in Canada or the United States? Would you support Right to Be Forgotten legislation in Canada?
How is the “ right to be forgotten ” balanced with the “ right to know”?
Who should decide what is to be removed? The individual? Google? Government? Should there be
an appeal process? The most “delinked” (i.e. forgotten) URLs come from Facebook.
What does that say about our use of social media and our accountability for what we post?
Is anything really deleted from the Internet? Is the Right to be Forgotten really the Right to Make Things More Difficult to Find?
Speaker(s): Michael Ridley,
Location:
Guelph, Ontario