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Social Memory and its Hazards

OCT 15, 2010

An appropriate follow-up to last-week's topic of the use of credit-scores in unexpected ways is today's on the 'social memory' of people created by anything that appears on the internet referring to them. One of my favourite lines in this piece is - Alex Türk, the French data-protection commissioner, has called for a "constitutional right to oblivion"
Ah, the French - 'Liberte, Egalite, Oblivion....'
This is a long but easy read, and my first thought about it was - is there anything really different regarding a person's reputation happening today because of the web?