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Prof. Dr. Rolf H. Weber
Hong Kong University, July 9, 2013
The Right to Be Forgotten
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Notion of the right
to be forgotten
Right to forget: No revitalization of historical event
Special case of convicted persons
Virtue of forgetting
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Delete Erase
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New European approaches
Spanish courts
French initiative
Development
of
legal
approaches
United States:
Continental Europe: The power of civil/personal
law
The tension of freedom of expression v. tort
Canadian policy and corporate practice
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Right to erasure of data loaded as child
EU Data Protection Ordinance
Obligations of controller
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Scope of erasure
Restriction of processing personal data
Implementation of erasure mechanisms
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Multi-dimensional approach
Privacy as cluster concept
Different forms of privacy
Structural relations in informational privacy
More user-centered approach
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Digital abstinence
Privacy risk mitigation
Information privacy rights
Digital privacy rights infrastructure
Cognitive adjustment
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Information ecology
Perfect contextualization
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Information power and cognition
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Laws
Technology
Cognition, decision-making
and time
Information power (incl. information privacy)
Individuals Digital abstinence Cognitive adjustment
Privacy rights Information ecology
Privacy DRM Full contextualization
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Expiration dates on digital data
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Technical implementation
Negotiation of expiration dates
Active deletion and erasure of data
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Technological responses
Cloud Computing: A cluster of complex liability issues - Prof. Dr. Rolf H. WeberJuly 9, 2013
PET: Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Anonymity: Concept of k-anonymity
CARPE: Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences
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Infrastructure security
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Network ad information security
Safety precautions and cooperation
Technical and organizational measures
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Limits of the right to be forgotten
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Balancing differenthuman rights
Balancing data protection and information access
Cultural and social elements
- Censorship
- Free flow of information
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Paternalistic reasons
Exceptions to the right to delete
Communitarian reasons
Administrative or economic reasons
Archival reasons
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Security reasons
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