Last week it was reported that GameStop, a clown show of a company peddling meme stocks and cheap video game merchandise, had unceremoniously and without notice shut down Game Informer, a magazine and website that had been publishing in some form since 1991. The decision was a terrible one for many reasons. For readers and […]
Right to be forgotten is specifically for personally identifiable information. And I’m pretty sure it’s sound on copyright grounds as long as you don’t distribute. And honestly, I don’t really see a problem with it.
And if you’ve made a personal website, say, with a blog of your valuable ideas/art (valuable to you, or anyone, arbitrarily), the ability to erase your site represents forgetting. The whole site may contain your PII throughout.
Any scraping or archiving techniques degrade that right.
You have a right to be forgotten. Your ideas and the work you create does not.