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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by Dylan16807 on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:36PM (#16776648)
Do you need to know about their parking tickets or embezzlement, though? Or that time they partied too hard 25 years ago? Outside of specific circumstances, having every mistake you've ever made accessible at a glance is not really good for society.
Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by kelnos on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @08:57AM (#16800982)
Um... yes? I'd probably want to know that information. And I'd also know that partying too hard 25 years ago probably doesn't have any bearing on their current behavior. But if they had been to jail for embezzling money? Yeah, I might have a problem with that.

Just give me the information, and let me decide how to interpret it.

The Right To Be Forgotten not only denies me the information in the first place, but it allows someone to selectively curate the information out there about them to tell the story they want to tell about themselves. Sure, maybe partying too hard 25 years ago isn't relevant anymore, but being convicted of child abuse 10 years ago certainly is. If it's just as easy to erase references to the latter as it is for the former, that's a problem. And what perfectly objective and moral party should decide what bits of info are ok to delist, and what should remain? I don't think any of us would trust that such an entity exists.

Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by hyperpape on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:56PM (#16778804)
I can understand the case for allowing someone to have their speeding tickets forgotten, but if you believe that, the correct response is that the government shouldn’t publish speeding tickets.

(I could be wrong, but I think parking tickets are aren’t published in the US, while speeding tickets are).

Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by joshuamorton on Saturday April 07, 2018 @12:51PM (#16781525)
I don't believe even most speeding tickets are a matter of public record, as citations and not criminal proceedings.