The Right to be Forgotten

Meg Leta Jones; Elisabeth Jones; Elena Zeide; Jill Dupre; Jens-Erik Mai; Neil Richards

Abstract

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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	10 nov. 2015
Antal sider	3
Status	Udgivet - 10 nov. 2015
Begivenhed	2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology - St. Louis, Missouri, USA Varighed: 6 nov. 2015 → 10 nov. 2015 Konferencens nummer: 78 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting-2015/

Konference

Konference	2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Nummer	78
Land/Område	USA
By	St. Louis, Missouri
Periode	06/11/2015 → 10/11/2015
Internetadresse	https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting-2015/

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