> PRIVATE: your track record of where you've been hanging out every day at 12:00 in the last month
This seems problematic. What is it about the aggregate information that makes it private? That is, at what point does a collection of individually public data become private? (I agree that it should, but would have trouble defining the precise point at which it does.)
> PUBLIC: your sexual orientation
> PRIVATE: your sexual orientation
I guess that this was intentional, but I think that I don't understand. Do you mean that sexual activities that are undertaken in public (I can't come up with a good way to phrase that—I mean innocently, things like dating and such) are public, and sexual activities that are undertaken, say, in the bedroom are private?
Getting busted for drunk driving, with a news story as a side effect - that's public information, not private. And if indeed you prove your innocence with a blood test, you can always ask the newspaper to retract their story or sue for defamation. But again, getting caught drunk while driving, that's public information, not private, so privacy doesn't enter the picture.
Just to be clear, lets try some samples:
PUBLIC: a picture with you drunk done by somebody else
PRIVATE: a selfie with you drunk that's stored on your laptop or DropBox or GDrive
PUBLIC: a record of you being at a Starbucks at 12:00 this Monday
PRIVATE: your track record of where you've been hanging out every day at 12:00 in the last month
PUBLIC: your face
PRIVATE: your social security number
PUBLIC: your sexual orientation
PRIVATE: your sexual orientation
Can you spot any differences? As a hint - privacy is the right to protect private information about yourself, but it's definitely not the right to hide information that's already public.
Of course, I can see the rationale behind the "Right to be Forgotten". I could agree with it. Except for the fact that I live in a country in which corruption is a problem - and this right will be used for censoring acts of corruption and I have a problem with this.