The Ethics of Memory in a Digital Age Interrogating the Right to be Forgotten

by Pereira, Ângela; Ghezzi, Alessia; Vesnic-Alujevic, Lucia

• ISBN13: 9781137428448
• ISBN10: 1137428449
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Following the trend of sharing more personal information, and associating being on-line with being 'on-life', many people are now demanding the ownership and control of their data across all processing phases, including the erasure of their presence on the web. In Europe, recent proposals for regulation include an explicit 'Right to be Forgotten'. This right stated in the European Commission Proposal for Regulation COM 2011/12 has not emerged without controversy. It is being criticised on several grounds, including clashing with other rights, such as freedom of expression, as well as setting the terrain for censorship. Besides the purely legal aspects of the proposed provisions, the chapters of this volume discuss how those legal provisions correspond in practice to worldviews and how individual and collective memory should be governed. They look into the deeper consequences of such provisions to construction of identity, culture and community formation, and how such a right affects how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember and forget.

Author Biography

Ângela Guimarães Pereira is Scientific Officer of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in the Institute of Protection and Security of the Citizen, Italy. Her work is developed within the field of science and technology studies, including social research, ethics, knowledge assessment and techno-science governance, publishing widely in these fields.

Alessia Ghezzi works at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in the Institute of Protection and Security of the Citizen, Italy. She graduated with a degree in archival science and a Master's degree in semantic cataloguing and indexing. Currently she works on digital memories and its ethical implications.

Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the European Commission's Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Italy. She obtained her PhD in Communication Science from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2011 and she publishes in the field of communication science, political science, EU policies, new technologies and online communication.

Table of Contents

Interrogating the Right to be Forgotten; Ângela Guimarães Pereiraa, Alessia Ghezzia and Lucia Vesnic-Alujevica
1. The Ethics of Forgetting and Remembering in the Digital World through the Eye of the Media; Ângela Guimarães Pereiraa, Lucia Vesnic-Alujevica and Alessia Ghezzia
2. The Right to be Forgotten and the New Archival Paradigm; Ivan Szekely
3. The Right to be Forgotten in Post-Scarcity Culture; Andrew Hoskins
4. Oblivion: The Right to be Different… From Oneself Reproposing the Right to be Forgotten; Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade
5. The Right to be Forgotten and Informational Autonomy in the Digital Environment; Cécile de Terwangne
6. Gender Identity and Data Protection: Could a Right To Be Forgotten Help Andrew Agnes Online?; Paulan Korenhof and Bert-Jaap Koops
7. The Importance of Being an Ego-Writer; Daniela Brighigni