Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age
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...Themonitoring of personal information is ubiquitous; its storage is so durable as to render one’s past undeletable (1)—a modern digital skeleton in the closet....
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...On top, as Mayer-Schönberger emphasizes in [134], search engines don’t have to redesign themselves to comply as Google is already handling millions of deletion requests for copyright violations every month....
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...In this respect, Mayer-Schönberger [117] elaborated in the concept of forgetting through expiration dates for information....
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...He described the various structural, legal, and technical components of expiration dates and how they would work together, while he offered a spectrum of possible implementations based on how thoroughly policy-makers and the public desire to revive forgetting [117]....
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...Currently, digital memories, comprising of the vast amount of data currently collected as we go about our everyday lives, make possible a comprehensive reconstruction of our words and deeds and, even if they are long past, they strongly suggest we are moving into a panoptic society as they create a temporal version of Bentham’s panopticon [125], constraining our willingness to say what we mean [117, 120, 126]....
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...forgetting to be inverted and thus forgetting to be the exception [117]....
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...We might be able to remove material possessions from our lives that evoke memories we wish to forget, however we may be peculiarly unable to free ourselves of these things in our digital world [11]....
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