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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by janosdebugs on Saturday September 30, 2023 @11:36AM (#37716439)
Why the right to be forgotten exists in general: Let's say there was a widely publicised murder in your neighborhood. You get picked up by the police, your mugshot and name get plastered all over the newspapers. It's a mistake. They catch the real perp a few days later and you go free. Now every time someone searches your name they are greeted with your mugshot. You don't get jobs, you don't get to rent an apartment and so on. It's not fair, it doesn't serve society in any way, shape, or form. You should be able to get that information removed.

The same goes, of course, for any drunken party pictures and the likes, which should have no bearing on your life decades later.

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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by thfuran on Saturday September 30, 2023 @04:45PM (#37719617)
>Let's say there was a widely publicised murder in your neighborhood. You get picked up by the police, your mugshot and name get plastered all over the newspapers. It's a mistake. They catch the real perp a few days later and you go free. Now every time someone searches your name they are greeted with your mugshot. You don't get jobs, you don't get to rent an apartment and so on. It's not fair, it doesn't serve society in any way, shape, or form. You should be able to get that information removed.

Rather than gaslighting the world, shouldn't you just prevent the problem? That is, just ban posting that sort of information before a conviction.

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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by fknorangesite on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:48PM (#37720206)
> ban posting that sort of information before a conviction.

A society that does not make arrest information public is one where it is very easy for someone to "disappear." That's the whole point.

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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by thfuran on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:19AM (#37725234)
If the government is trying to disappear people, then having in place the mechanisms for a right to be forgotten seems like it would only help them disappear people more thoroughly.
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Re:Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Feder... by janosdebugs on Sunday October 01, 2023 @01:42AM (#37722995)
That is the case in a lot of places for arrests, but wrong convictions are a thing too and those get reported. Plus, there are situations where someone posted a presumably funny picture of someone else, which you should absolutely have the right to not be found. It has an impact on your life for no good reason.
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