The "Right to be forgotten" has two different meanings in my mind
- 1) The fact that some websites takes the noble stance and allows the users to delete their own information.
- 2) The requirement that authorities put on search engines to prevent links to be shown to things that people want to be forgotten. This is the meaning that one mostly associate with the term.
The first meaning is something that I encourage.
The second meaning, I'm much more critical about. A search engine is not responsible for what others put on the net. It's like shooting the messenger. See also
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/09/battle-free-speech-france-google-right-to-be-forgotten that elaborates more on this view.
My push for websites to embrace the first meaning of the term
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A "Right to be Forgotten"-marker that sites can use to show that they offers the users to delete their data
A Right to be forgotten-marker
I have some websites and I'm noticing that people are reluctant to hand out their identity and other data.
People need to know that
not all websites tries to collect all possible data about them for unknown purposes.
It would be good with some kind of easy recognizable marker/badge that website owners can put on their website to make a clear statement that they do
not collect all possible data, but instead support "the right to be forgotten".
So I made a naive attempt to created a badge (see image) that anyone can scrutinize and comment on.
Update: Perhaps one should invent a totally new term to avoid confusion, like:
Delete yourself whenever you want.
