Is it a fault that a website publishes news of someone's bankruptcy, or that a certain person was once convicted of a sex crime? This right to be forgotten certainly is not a concept I have every heard anyone advocate for in the US.
Credit cards, social security numbers, copyright work, stolen trade secrets, and other sensitive personal information are different. What this EU ruling seems to say is that if anything embarrassing or uncomfortable has ever happened to you in the past it should be erased from the historical record, as if it never occurred. That is kind of like in grade school, being banned by the teacher for reminding another student that they shit their pants.
> That is kind of like in grade school, being banned by the teacher for reminding another student that they shit their pants.
That is so oddly specific that I have to ask: were you the kid that shit his pants, or the one who had to be told not to remind the kid that he once shat his pants?
I was the one that continually reminded someone if they ever did anything embarrassing. Usually to the point I was yelled at by a teacher or the individual's own parents.
Credit cards, social security numbers, copyright work, stolen trade secrets, and other sensitive personal information are different. What this EU ruling seems to say is that if anything embarrassing or uncomfortable has ever happened to you in the past it should be erased from the historical record, as if it never occurred. That is kind of like in grade school, being banned by the teacher for reminding another student that they shit their pants.