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The Right to be Forgotten

Speck&Tech 3“Security & Privacy”

Who I am

Francesco Bonadiman▶ Marketing & Communications

Officer @ EIT Digital Alumni

▶ Trento Node Local Representative

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Who I am

Francesco Bonadiman▶ Marketing & Communications

Officer @ EIT Digital Alumni

▶ Trento Node Local Representative

▶ Co-founder @ Speck&Tech

▶ francescobonadiman.com

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http://francescobonadiman.com/

http://francescobonadiman.com/

Have you evergoogled yourself?

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Example Cases

Stacy Snyder

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Example Cases

Stacy Snyder Virginia Da Cunha

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Mario Costeja González6

Mario’s argument

‘Default = forgetting’

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Mario’s argument

‘Default = forgetting’

‘Default = remembering’

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There should bea way to...

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What did the Court say?

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...and here comes the“Right to be forgotten”

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“The right to silence past events in life that are no longer occurring”

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DefinitionHave

● information● personal data● photos/videos● ...

deleted / removed(de-indexed)

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DefinitionHave



if these are

● inadequate● irrelevant● excessive● not up-to-date

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DefinitionHave



if these are

● inadequate● irrelevant● excessive● not up-to-date

(based on the purpose for which they were collected)

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...but let’s get back to our story!

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May 201415

May 2014

“suppress search-results for privacy-

related reasons”

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vs

right to be forgotten

de-indexed

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vs

right to be forgotten

de-indexed

person’s name ≠ keyword

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vs

“relevant” for our past life?

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vs


“inadequate” or of no public

interest

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vs


no control → robot!

“inadequate” or of no public

interest

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vs

legal responsibility

for results?

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vs


for results?

economic interests = secondary

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vs

Are these moral dues my business?


for results?


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vs

Are these moral dues my business?


for results?


...of a private

firm?

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And what did the Court say?

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November 2014

Ruling applied only to European national domains

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November 2014


→ detour via .com

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November 2014


→ detour via .com→ ‘Balkanization’

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February 2016Search results removals → applied to all domains

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BUT using geolocation signals

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BUT using geolocation signals

if IP address of the browser is located in the European Union

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● CNIL rejected this approach

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● French Data Protection authority fined Google 100K€

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● French Data Protection authority fined Google 100K€

“a person's right to privacy cannot depend on the geographic origin of those viewing the search results"

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Google said this new law could “prevent citizens from seeing content that is perfectly legal in that certain country”

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“Philosophical”Discussion

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Once online, data should stay online

US / Free Speech / Media

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Remove information

“just because”Europe / CNIL

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KEEP● subtle censorship

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● information incomplete

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● “rewrite the history”

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● memory = culture

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KEEP REMOVE● regret once we post?● subtle censorship




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KEEP REMOVE● regret once we post?

● teenagers’ judgement

● subtle censorship




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● revenge-porn





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● revenge-porn

● re-post / re-tweet?





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Past political comments?

(Private into) Public life29


Transparency?

High School poems?



Transparency?

High School poems?

Later retreat into anonymity?


Criminal records

How relevant after time?

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Criminal records


World War II

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Criminal records


World War II

Pedophiles?

Serial Killers?

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Remove information

“just because”Europe / CNIL

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The Online Form

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June 2016

google.com/transparencyreport/removals/europeprivacy/

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Some examples...34

But most delinkings...Google accidentally revealed data on delinkings

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And the most delinked...36

And the most delinked...

support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch

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https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch


And the most delinked...

support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch

Yahoo and Bing put up their own forms

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“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all”

F. Nietzsche

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References1. Bygrave L., A right to be forgotten?, Communications of the ACM, 20152. Ausloos J., The ‘Right to be Forgotten’ - Worth Remembering?, Forthcoming Computer Law & Security

Review, 20123. de Terwangne. C, Internet Privacy and the Right to Be Forgotten/Right to Oblivion, Revista de los

Estudios de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la UOC, 20124. Wagner M., Li-Reilly Y., The right to be forgotten, The Advocate, 20145. Weber R., The Right to Be Forgotten: More Than a Pandora’s Box?, JIPITEC, 20116. Bennett S., The "Right to Be Forgotten": Reconciling EU and US Perspectives, Berkeley Journal of

International Law, 20127. Rosen J., The Right to Be Forgotten, Stanford Law Review, 2012

8. wsj.com/articles/eu-says-google-should-extend-right-to-be-forgotten-to-com-websites-1417006254 - The Wall Street Journal

9. wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten - Wikipedia10. www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/the-right-be-forgotten-google-search - The Guardian11. www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/europeprivacy/ - Google

http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-says-google-should-extend-right-to-be-forgotten-to-com-websites-1417006254

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

Figures (page numbers)A. http://www.relatably.com/m/img/welcome-memes/63341322.jpg5. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/12/court-rejects-appeal-over-student-teacher-drunk-myspace-pics/5. http://www.informaticalegal.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Virginia-Da-Cunha-Google.jpg6. http://www.lejdd.fr/Medias/Internet/Mario-Costeja-Gonzalez-l-homme-qui-a-fait-plier-Google-674891 7. http://nytimes.com/2015/08/06/technology/personaltech/right-to-be-forgotten-online-is-poised-to-spread.html8. http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/shutterstock_RTBF_195176492.jpg10. http://cdn.meme.am/instances/53943477.jpg12. http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/h0IT6HhgTKdcYzrKyx8vSD3TunQ=/2014%2F05%2F13%2F95%2FForgottenQu.94cc5.jpg13. http://webhostrequests.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pc.gif.pagespeed.ce_.wSCNv13D7N.gif14. http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/1/full/1370701576_7.jpg15. http://www.dw.com/image/0,,16221871_303,00.jpg16. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1NtpxKeJf-o/VeXYLMr3NEI/AAAAAAAAkxo/KtOSQV0hFDQ/s1600/G-symbol.png16. http://www.bvoed.de/assets/images/Icons_neu/eu-flag.jpg20. http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qbtrb21. http://www.youreuropemap.com/map_tld_europe.gif22. http://thefreeinternetproject.org/blog/which-countries-have-right-be-forgotten23. http://i.imgflip.com/16urft.jpg24. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/the-right-be-forgotten-google-search25. http://media.guim.co.uk/8da49288dcfd71fb668a7cbd634ece4da689804a/0_0_3831_2301/master/3831.jpg29. http://jerrymabbott.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/wpid-2014-05-23-15-47-411.png30. http://lacriticacritica.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/500px-adolf_hitler.png36. http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/how-to-give-away-45-billion/media/images/infographics/face/zuckerberg-profile-1x.png37. http://jrbenjamin.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nietz.jpg

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/12/court-rejects-appeal-over-student-teacher-drunk-myspace-pics/

http://www.informaticalegal.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Virginia-Da-Cunha-Google.jpg

Further DiscussionMight forgetting be a good thing?

And if yes, after how long?

What about expiration dates?

Who deletes the information?

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