The EFF opposes the Right to be Forgotten. Some of their staff talked about it at Defcon two years back. In too many cases it simply leads to censorship.
Freedom of speech, and its implementation by the Supreme Court in the US, makes this kind of legislation impossible.
There are trade offs. Even if you can afford to get your criminal record expunged, data collection firms can still hold a copy of your record while it was public; so it can still show up on some background checks.
We need to move away from the stigma of lifetime labels more than we need to be able to erase the past.
Freedom of speech, and its implementation by the Supreme Court in the US, makes this kind of legislation impossible.
There are trade offs. Even if you can afford to get your criminal record expunged, data collection firms can still hold a copy of your record while it was public; so it can still show up on some background checks.
We need to move away from the stigma of lifetime labels more than we need to be able to erase the past.