Do You Want the Right to be Forgotten!?

We’ve Got Questions.  You’ve Got Answers.

Argentina and several other countries have adopted laws concerning “the right to be forgotten.”    It  allows you to remove embarrassing pictures or information from the Internet, even if you put it there,  permanently. In a recent article,  NPR reported that this means you can tell Yahoo or Google or Facebook, “I don’t want that there anymore. I want this to be forgotten. You have the image or the email or whatever in your computers. Remove it. And if you don’t, you are breaking the law.”

Read the full article on NPR.com before deciding.

Strong stuff.  Is it good?  Would we want that here?  Do we want other people to re-write history by erasing moments that are less than perfect?  And what would become of TMZ?   What do you think?  Do we want a right to be forgotten?

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