{"id":38,"date":"2016-11-10T04:10:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2016-11-10T04:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:10:36","slug":"week-9-the-right-to-be-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/2016\/11\/10\/week-9-the-right-to-be-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9: The Right to be Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting point in our discussion this week was about the right to be forgotten ruling in some EU countries. The legislation lets you go to Google and ask that certain information no longer be connected to your name in search results, as it no longer pertains to the \u201cyou\u201d of today. The ruling doesn\u2019t require Google to take down the original source, however.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reading a bit more about this on Wikipedia, it appears that a user submits a request to have a certain list of URL\u2019s removed, and then Google employees (or other search engine employees) assesses the request. I\u2019m curious how Google decides which of these cases to approve or which to deny, and if there are specific criteria or if it\u2019s just done on a case-by-case basis by an individual reader\/decider.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the right to be forgotten concept seems to connect, in some ways, to our desire to craft our images online (on social media, LinkedIn, or other sites.) The higher the degree of accessibility, the more we feel the need to curate and control what others see (which isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing, from a privacy perspective.) At the same time, there\u2019s a balance between overly curating and restricting accurate\/relevant data from circulating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting point in our discussion this week was about the right to be forgotten ruling in some EU countries. The legislation lets you go to Google and ask that certain information no longer be connected to your name in search results, as it no longer pertains to the \u201cyou\u201d of today. The ruling doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sdfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}