*Righting the right to be forgotten* July 14th, 2014 | by z | Published in Future of the Internet <http://futureoftheinternet.org/category/future-of-the-internet/> The F-T just published <http://futureoftheinternet.org/2014/07/14/righting-the-right-to-be-forgotten...> a piece I wrote about the implementation of the right to be forgotten in Europe. Here is a draft from which the op-ed was drawn: Last week Google formally launched a blue-ribbon committee of advisors to help it implement the European Court of Justice's new "right to be forgotten." Its work is cut out for it, as the search giant processes more than 70,000 requests <https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch> since May to decouple a claimant's name from possibly true but still "irrelevant" (and presumably reputation-damaging) search results. Turning theory into practice has revealed unanswered questions -- and some outright flaws -- in the Court's decision, regardless of where you might stand on the right's philosophical merits. The first puzzle is transparency. Other types of compelled redactions, such as for alleged copyright infringement, occasion a notification to searchers that results have been altered. But a specific notice that a search on someone's name is missing something could lead to a negative inference about the person even worse than the substance of whatever has been removed. So how to report on compelled takedowns in a way that is neither Orwellian nor self-defeating? One idea is for Google and other affected search engines to contribute to a database of takedowns that independent academics can analyze in order to produce credible insights about how the new right is working in practice. Are public figures looking to scrub their records to avoid scrutiny, or are the requestors more often private citizens? Are the takedowns focusing on content within obscure Web-originating message boards, or on archives of government records or newspaper articles? Without a record of takedowns, there will be no way to understand how the use and impact of the right are unfolding. [...] Continua qui: http://futureoftheinternet.org/2014/07/14/righting-the-right-to-be-forgotten...