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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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to be forgotten</span><br>
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font-family: arial;">December 26th, 2012</span></p>
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height="110" width="82">Despite what you see on
TV and in the movies, libraries do not just hand
over people's reading records to any guy who walks
in off the street and says he's a detective. In
fact, in Ohio <a
href="http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/149.432">the law</a>
specifies that, "A library shall not release any
library record or disclose any patron
information...." But what if you choose to
purchase your reading materials over the Internet?
Or even just download free ebooks? Even if the
website promises to keep your information private,
is that actually possible? In Europe, a proposed
"right to be forgotten" may be doomed before it
even starts because of the nature of the Internet.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.technollama.co.uk/report-by-european-body-cautious-about-right-to-be-forgotten">Report
by European body cautious about "right to be
forgotten"</a> (Technollama/Andres Guadamuz)
"'The right to be forgotten' is one of the
elements of the new proposed <a
href="http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/review2012/com_2012_11_en.pdf">regulation</a>
[pdf] (January 2012) on data protection of the
European Commission. The right allows people to
ask for digitally held personal information to
be deleted. The regulation is still to be
adopted by the European Parliament. Therefore
the EU's 'cyber security' Agency ENISA is
launching its new report covering the technical
aspects of 'being forgotten', as technology and
information systems play a critical role in
enforcing this right."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/identity-and-trust/library/deliverables/the-right-to-be-forgotten/">The
right to be forgotten - between expectations
and practice</a> [links to full report, pdf]
(European Network and Information Security
Agency) "In a completely open system like the
(vast) public portion of today's world-wide web,
anyone can make copies of a public data item and
store them at arbitrary locations. Moreover, the
system does not account for the number, owner or
location of such copies. <em>In such an open
system it is not generally possible for a
person to locate all personal data items
(exact or derived) stored about them; it is
difficult to determine whether a person has
the right to request removal of a particular
data item; nor does any single person or
entity have the authority or jurisdiction to
effect the deletion of all copies.</em>
Therefore, enforcing the right to be forgotten
is impossible in an open, global system, in
general."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/europe/why-big-data-could-sink-europes-right-to-be-forgotten/">Why
big data could sink Europe's 'right to be
forgotten'</a> (GigaOM/David Meyer) "If data
gets aggregated and crunched by analytics
software, you can't say in all cases that the
process can't be reverse-engineered,
particularly when you're correlating different
sets of derived data. But getting it out is,
well, a challenge. This isn't the only problem
ENISA's identified."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/11/20/facebook-proposed-eu-right-to-be-forgotten-raises-major-concerns-over-freedom-of-expression-online/">Facebook:
Proposed EU 'right to be forgotten' raises
"major concerns" over freedom of expression
online</a> (The Next Web/Martin Bryant) "While
it's easy to paint Facebook as a bad guy for
speaking out against new data protection laws,
the voice of social networks is important in
considering any such legislation lest we end up
with a clunkier, more frustrating version of the
social Web thanks to overly zealous legislators
in Brussels."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Forgetting
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">The ENISA
report identifies three levels of "forgetting":
strict, in which all copies of personal data are
erased to the point where recovering the data is
impossible; slightly weaker, which would allow
encrypted copies of the data to survive, as long
as they can only be deciphered by authorized
parties; and even weaker, in which data could
survive, as long as it would no longer appear in
public indices, database query results, or search
engine results.
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