The antidisgnomon party has gained some ground lately and the disgnomons, all exactly 7² of them, have discovered playing technical janitor pays less than the cost of living in the company town. The main problem with a right to be forgot is a right cannot cross over onto another person. The right to be forgot criminalizes memory; creates thought crime whether it's literal memory or stored bytes. Information longs for abolition. This neatly inverts your Orwellian blather. See also.
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I have been on message boards before where you couldn't edit or delete your post once you hit the POST button. I don't like that. They claim that it's just like real conversations. Once you say something to someone, you can't unsay it or take back the information, which is true. But on the internet, there are thousands of visitors who may see what you wrote.
At the time of your writing, you may not have thought about the fact that your post could be read by millions of people in the FUTURE. A real conversation is always in the PRESENT, and it's meant to be in the present. You can't play it back over and over again.
So, I think, it's a good idea to give users the right to be forgotten or to edit their information. And of course, I also agree that user data should not be sent over the network in plain text format.
Btw I love the K-Meleon web browser, because it has a JavaScript disable button on the toolbar. So, if you want to visit a site and you don't want that site to collect information on you, you can disable JavaScript. Most of these spying algorithms are written in JavaScript, so by disabling that, you know you're probably safe. ;)
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