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The Right to Forget - Privacy and the Media in the Digital Age

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor George Brock is Professor of Journalism at City University London. He was a journalist with The Observer and The Times between 1981 and 2009. At The Times he was Foreign Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor. He chaired the World Editor Forum for four years and sits on the board of the International Press Institute, chairing the IPI's British section. He is a trustee of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and on the editorial advisory committee of The Conversation UK. He is the author of Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age. Klappentext The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circulate information in ways which either authors or subjects are unable to trace or control. Servers store data which can be found on the world wide web years after it has ceased to be accurate or relevant to its original use. These developments have given rise to a movement promoting a 'right to be forgotten': an argument that freedom of expression should be balanced by a right to erase information which affects an individual, under certain conditions. Rights to privacy therefore need extending and strengthening in the digital era. This strand of thinking influenced a significant judgement delivered by the European Court of Justice in May 2014. As a result, the dominant internet search engine in Europe, Google, has been required to remove links to hundreds of thousands of pieces of information on application from individuals who considered their interests harmed. We know very little of how these delinking choices are made.This book looks at the implications of this controversial decision for free expression, journalism and information in the digital public sphere. Two rights-free speech and privacy-collide in a new way in age of information saturation. Is the judgement a threat to freedom of information and the accuracy of the historical record or the first step in establishing essential new rights in the digital era. Zusammenfassung The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circulate information in ways which either authors or subjects are unable to trace or control. Servers store data which can be found on the world wide web years after it has ceased to be accurate or relevant to its original use. These developments have given rise to a movement promoting a 'right to be forgotten': an argument that freedom of expression should be balanced by a right to erase information which affects an individual, under certain conditions. Rights to privacy therefore need extending and strengthening in the digital era. This strand of thinking influenced a significant judgement delivered by the European Court of Justice in May 2014. As a result, the dominant internet search engine in Europe, Google, has been required to remove links to hundreds of thousands of pieces of information on application from individuals who considered their interests harmed. We know very little of how these delinking choices are made.This book looks at the implications of this controversial decision for free expression, journalism and information in the digital public sphere.Two rights-free speech and privacy-collide in a new way in age of information saturation. Is the judgement a threat to freedom of information and the accuracy of the historical record or the first step in establishing essential new rights in the digital era....

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Authors George Brock, Professor George Brock
Publisher Tauris, I.B.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.09.2016
 
EAN 9781784535926
ISBN 978-1-78453-592-6
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 140 mm x 215 mm x 10 mm
Series RISJ Challenges Series
RISJ Challenges
Subjects Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology

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