Why a "right to be forgotten" is really very bad for privacy

Why a "right to be forgotten" is really very bad for privacy -

the European Court of justice ruled that Google must comply celebrates a new "right to be forgotten" and stop posting links to articles on the application of those stories concern. It is not good for privacy; it is disastrous is why

the "right to be forgotten" in the European Union was presented as a law of privacy building, but is exactly the.. opposite. There are more strengthening privacy that tax laws reinforce financial autonomy. When the government can order something to forget, it gives the right to change history, to erase the embarrassment, and protect its ranks against a free press.

But looking at the other side, is not it good that you can have bad, embarrassing or downright false stories about yourself removed from human consciousness? Would this not a service that you would be grateful for the government providing standing for the little guy against the powerful publishers? Would not you be able to erase the bad photos from Facebook, for example?

To understand why this is bad, we must first look a little more closely what the government is .

one of the main functions of government of the modern nation-state is to settle disputes between citizens. The idea is to avoid "might makes right" with, ehm, giving a monopoly on legal violence to an entity - the government - which then can outgun any part of its territory. So it is not avoid "might makes right" at all; it's just to put all the power and all the firearms in a trusted party, government and giving it the ability to enforce its judgment in disputes

such disputes between citizens has always been important -. They concerned the transfer of wealth, property or resources in various ways, but for the first time, Alice is gone. the government and demanded that Bob forgets something wrong about it.

the government agreed in this dispute, and in doing so, it gave much greater power that determine who has that: it has now made itself the right to determine which think this

so, for the first time a government has reserves the. right to determine what someone can or can not remember, backed by the full Gunforce of law enforcement. This is not good for privacy. This is disastrous.

A right to oblivion for someone else is a right for the government to determine what is and what is not in my memory. And yours. It's terrible.

Privacy remains your own responsibility.