Re: do we have a right to be forgotten?

Le 19 avr. 2011 à 17:33, David Remahl a écrit :
> I think that a society that remembers is likely to become much more forgiving, owing to sheer necessity and survival value.

"I think" is the core of the issue and what thing we will have to remember during the workshop. For having lived in 3 different continents: Canada, France and Japan, I have met very different notions of what is good for the society or not and with very diverse expectations about what should be said or not about someone. 

The tools, technologies, we create have definitely impact on the society.
We have to be careful that they are flexible enough to adjust to different types of social, cultural scenarii. 

So to rephrase a bit what rigo said: I would replace the "right" by the "tool" to be forgotten. (what I usually call: opacity. Can I control the level of opacity from transparent to completely obscure.)

	Do we have the tools to be forgotten?


For example, I'm glad that I can at the same time let people browse my web site without login and password but block search engines bots. 
http://www.la-grange.net/robots.txt
(It should be easier to do it for anyone.)


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Received on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:50:26 UTC