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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480524803321

Autore

Jones Meg Leta

Titolo

Ctrl + Z : The Right to Be Forgotten / / Meg Leta Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : New York University Press, , 2016

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2016

ISBN

1-4798-0151-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

323.44/8094

Soggetti

Right to be forgotten

Privacy, Right of

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Forgetting made easy -- Forgetting made impossible -- Innovating privacy -- Digital information stewardship -- Ctrl + Z in legal cultures -- Ctrl + Z in the international community

Sommario/riassunto

A gripping insight into the digital debate over data ownership, permanence and policy“This is going on your permanent record!” is a threat that has never held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as democratized as posting a Tweet or making blog. Data about us is created, shared, collected, analyzed, and processed at an overwhelming scale. The damage caused can be severe, affecting relationships, employment, academic success, and any number of other opportunities—and it can also be long lasting. One possible solution to this threat? A digital right to be forgotten, which would in turn create a legal duty to delete, hide, or anonymize information at the request of another user. The highly controversial right has been criticized as a repugnant affront to principles of expression and access, as unworkable as a technical measure, and as effective as trying to put the cat back in the bag. Ctrl+Z breaks down the debate and provides guidance for a way forward. It argues that the existing perspectives are too limited, offering easy forgetting or none at all. By looking at new



theories of privacy and organizing the many potential applications of the right, law and technology scholar Meg Leta Jones offers a set of nuanced choices. To help us choose, she provides a digital information life cycle, reflects on particular legal cultures, and analyzes international interoperability. In the end, the right to be forgotten can be innovative, liberating, and globally viable.