The Right to be Forgotten Privacy or Censorship?

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Here is the description of the talk and discussion questions: Since 2006 the European Union (EU) as supported the idea of the “right to be forgotten” (i.e. to have information about you removed from search engines and specific websites). The EU further entrenched this right in 2012 data protection regulations. Google has been the focus of most of the requests for removals and they have deleted over 1M URLs.

 

Is the Right to be Forgotten a positive response to a legitimate privacy issue or a dangerous challenge to transparency and openness (i.e. censorship)?
The Right to be Forgotten was widely discussed and supported within the EU
. Why has a similar law not in been considered in Canada or the United States? Would you support Right to Be Forgotten legislation in Canada?
 
How is the “ right to be forgotten ” balanced with the “ right to know”?
 
Who should decide what is to be removed? The individual? Google? Government? Should there be
an appeal process? The most “delinked” (i.e. forgotten) URLs come from Facebook.
 
What does that say about our use of social media and our accountability for what we post?
 
Is anything really deleted from the Internet? Is the Right to be Forgotten really the Right to Make Things More Difficult to Find?

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Michael Ridley

Topic:

The Right to be Forgotten Privacy or Censorship?

 Since 2006 the European Union (EU) as supported the idea of the “right to be forgotten” (i.e. to have information about you removed from search engines and specific websites). The EU further entrenched this right in 2012 data protection regulations. Google has been the focus of most of the requests for removals and they have deleted over 1M URLs.


 


Is the Right to be Forgotten a positive response to a legitimate privacy issue or a dangerous challenge to transparency and openness (i.e. censorship)?

The Right to be Forgotten was widely discussed and supported within the EU

. Why has a similar law not in been considered in Canada or the United States? Would you support Right to Be Forgotten legislation in Canada?

 

How is the “ right to be forgotten ” balanced with the “ right to know”?

 

Who should decide what is to be removed? The individual? Google? Government? Should there be

an appeal process? The most “delinked” (i.e. forgotten) URLs come from Facebook.

 

What does that say about our use of social media and our accountability for what we post?

 

Is anything really deleted from the Internet? Is the Right to be Forgotten really the Right to Make Things More Difficult to Find?

Biography:

Michael Ridley was  the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in 2004 and was the Chief Librarian at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) since 1995-2014.

In this role, Michael was responsible for the overall strategy and policy administration of the University’s information technology, information services and information resources. Reporting to the Provost and Vice President (Academic), he was accountable for providing the vision, leadership and advocacy for the development and use of information systems (IS), information resources (IR) and information technology (IT) to further the academic mission and to support the administrative requirements of the University.

Ridley holds degrees from the University of Guelph (BA), the University of New Brunswick (MA) and the University of Toronto (MLS). Previously he held positions at the University of Waterloo, McMaster University, and the University of Guelph.

Michael Ridley

Topic:

The Right to be Forgotten Privacy or Censorship?

Biography: