What Is The Role Of The “Right To Be Forgotten”?

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Stacy Snyder, a teacher under training, was denied her teaching degree certificate which she was waiting to get from Millersville University School of Education. And because of that her dream and her hard work came close to be over from one day to another. She has lost teaching Certificate because of a photo she has posted on MySpace social network website. It was a photo for her with a cup of drink and a hat written on it “Drunken Pirate” that cost her four years of her life. The University claimed that the photo is inappropriate for a teacher teaching under-age students which would be considered as promoting drinking. In old days if a person wants to start a new life, because he wants to forget his past terrible life mistake, he just had to move to another city or country where he can start from zero. There, no one knows him and his mistake would be forgotten. But today, due to social network sites like Google, Face book and Twitter, your past mistakes and life cannot be forgotten wherever you go. The Right to be forgotten is one of the controversial issues in our digital age. In this paper, I will address the role of the right to be forgotten in protecting our privacy, identity, and forgiveness. Firstly, the main objective of the right to be forgotten is protecting our privacy. “If an individual no longer wants his personal data to be processed or stored by a data controller, and if there is no legitimate reason for keeping it, the data should be removed from their system.” By these words, Viviane Reding, EU Justice Commissioner, announced the new right on the personal data protection in European Union; “the Right to be forgotten”. Our families, homes, even minds and thoughts are threatened by internet recording system which record everything and forget nothing. For instance, Google could give details as to where, when, and by whom more than three billion

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