Right To Be Forgotten

Say No to the Right to Be Forgotten The Right to Be Forgotten is a controversial issue that many people are debating. According to Jeffrey Rosen, there are three categories of the right to be forgotten. The first category is the individual’s right to delete a photo or data that he or she posted. Second, if the individual’s post has been copied and re-posted by another person, the individual has the right to delete the data from that other person’s account even without his or her permission. Lastly, the most controversial category is if someone publishes a photo or data about another individual, the individual who was published has the right to take the information down. Many people believe that the right to be forgotten should be a law, but
The right to be forgotten would give people the advantage of having all their embarrassing photos or information on the Internet deleted. In order to do so, they will have the option of suing companies that do not take these embarrassing photos or information down. According to Rosen, an Argentine pop star sued Google and Yahoo for not taking down a scandalous picture that had been posted on the Internet; arguing that they have violated Argentine’s version of a “right to be forgotten” (3). The purpose of search engines such as Google and Yahoo is to direct you to a narrower field of websites or answers for your searches. They cannot control the content of websites that show up in the searches. Therefore, having the right to be forgotten would be unfair for companies like Google, Yahoo, and even Facebook because they do not have control over what people publish on the Internet, so they do not deserve to be fined for
However, no one can protect his or her privacy against everything. According to Kasper, “the notion of privacy in American society is especially problematic” (70). Nowadays, it is essentially hard to have privacy. We cannot truly have privacy unless we choose to isolate ourselves from the world. We are exposed to other people everyday and no one can control what other people will do. Therefore, there is no way to always protect our privacy. Some people may also argue that everyone makes mistakes. However, it does not automatically means that that gives them a free ticket to delete whatever they do not want others to see. They should just take it as a lesson learned; that they should not be doing anything in front of other people that they know they will regret in the