The right to be forgotten
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The right to be forgotten. / Jones, Meg Leta; Zeide, Elana; Mai, Jens Erik; Jones, Elisabeth; Dupre, Jill; Richards, Neil.
In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2015, p. 1-3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The right to be forgotten
AU - Jones, Meg Leta
AU - Zeide, Elana
AU - Mai, Jens Erik
AU - Jones, Elisabeth
AU - Dupre, Jill
AU - Richards, Neil
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The right to be forgotten gained international attention in May 2014, when the European Court of Justice ruled that Google was obligated to recognize European citizens’ data protection rights to address inadequate, irrelevant, or excessive personal information. As of April 14, 2015, Google received 239,337 requests to eliminate 867,930 URLs from search results and has removed 305,095 URLs, a rate of 41.5 percent. The right to be forgotten is intended to legally address digital information that lingers and threatens to shackle individuals to their past by exposing the information to opaque data processing and online judgment. There are a number of challenges to developing these rights – digital information means and touches so many aspects of life across cultures as they grapple with new policies. The controversial ruling and establishment of such a right, potential for a similar movement in the U.S., and future of transborder data flows will be discussed by this esteemed panel.
AB - The right to be forgotten gained international attention in May 2014, when the European Court of Justice ruled that Google was obligated to recognize European citizens’ data protection rights to address inadequate, irrelevant, or excessive personal information. As of April 14, 2015, Google received 239,337 requests to eliminate 867,930 URLs from search results and has removed 305,095 URLs, a rate of 41.5 percent. The right to be forgotten is intended to legally address digital information that lingers and threatens to shackle individuals to their past by exposing the information to opaque data processing and online judgment. There are a number of challenges to developing these rights – digital information means and touches so many aspects of life across cultures as they grapple with new policies. The controversial ruling and establishment of such a right, potential for a similar movement in the U.S., and future of transborder data flows will be discussed by this esteemed panel.
KW - digital privacy
KW - Information ethics & information policy
KW - information retrieval & search engines
KW - international policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84987729491&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010010
DO - 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010010
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84987729491
VL - 52
SP - 1
EP - 3
JO - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
SN - 2373-9231
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 170188660