#right-to-be-forgotten — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #right-to-be-forgotten, aggregated by home.social.
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It's been 31 days since I exercised my right to be forgotten under GDPR by submitting the request to Ryanair (I used them once while I was a student, long time ago).
I can still login on their page.
I'll try to contact their Data Protection Officer but we'll see how that goes.
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Has #Scuttlebutt #SSB #SecureScuttlebutt already solved the infinite storage problem? Or does it still use a forever growing blockchain?
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Weekly output: social-media cleanup, Verizon’s phone-unlock waiting period, NASA’s Starliner report
This will be a travel-abbreviated workweek: Friday afternoon, I head to Dulles to start my journey to Spain for MWC Barcelona, still one of my favorite reasons to get on a plane for business. I’ll be there until March 5, so the next few days would be an excellent time to hit me up with any questions you have about the future of the wireless industry.
Meanwhile, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week about my continued struggles with my home WiFi, in which trying to pick out a good mesh-network option has required wrestling with unexpected national-security concerns.
2/17/2026: Social-media cleanses, Al Jazeera
The Arabic-language news channel had me in studio to offer some perspective about people implicated in the Epstein files trying to cleanse their social-media history. I said that if you’re sufficiently prominent, the Internet doesn’t forget things.
2/18/2026: Paid Off Your Phone Early? Verizon to Ease 35-Day Hold to Unlock It, PCMag
Four days after Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reported that Verizon had begun requiring a 35-day waiting period to complete unlocking a phone paid off early (unless you made that payment in one of Verizon’s own stores with cash or a credit card’s chip or tap-to-pay options), I asked Verizon for comment. Hours later, I got a statement that the company was working to allow online payments to qualify for an immediate unlock–and then Verizon didn’t give Brodkin the same statement.
2/20/2026: Unpacking Starliner Failures, NASA Chief Delivers Scathing Assessment, PCMag
While I was at a space-industry conference in Tysons Thursday, NASA announced the findings of an investigation into everything that went wrong with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule after its first and still only launch with astronauts aboard. So instead of writing up one of the panels at this event, I started reading the agency’s 311-page report, hit up Boeing PR for a comment and got in a call with a longtime observer and critic of NASA. Then I spent more of Friday than I’d planned on writing this post.
#ArsTechnica #Barcelona #Boeing #EpsteinFiles #JaredIsaacman #JonBrodkin #MWC #nasa #phoneUnlocking #rightToBeForgotten #socialMediaPosts #Starliner #verizon -
Dare to be forgotten.
We have all been trained to think if we did not document it, it did not happen. We have turned our actual lives into content, constantly performing for an audience that isn't even really watching.
There is freedom in the undocumented. If you stop worrying about how a moment looks, you will start noticing how it actually feels. You no longer ask, "How will this look?" and instead ask, "How does this feel?"
Privacy is not just having secrets. It is having a life that belongs to you and not a data center. Some things should not be for sale. Some things are better when they are just yours.
What if the most important thing you did today was something nobody ever found out about?
#DareToBeForgotten #DareToBe #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #SlowWeb #DigitalAsceticism #Intentionality #NoAI #SimpleLiving #JOMO #TheQuietLife #Mindfulness #RightToBeForgotten #LowTech #deGoogle
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"Dear Customer,
We would like to inform you that we’ve successfully initiated the request you made to change the data British Airways holds about you.The process may take up to one calendar month from the date you validated your email address, so please bear with us while we do this."
I'm just happy to have made it this far, sheesh, what a trial. Emails, circular link trails, more forms.
And all to have the "Deleted" record for me in their database updated to "True".....
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Without any gatekeepers, clouds, administrations, authorities, permanent records, blockchains, or middlemen
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Google Laughs Off Strongly Worded Letter From Privacy Commissioner
Canada's privacy laws continue to be a long running joke after Google laughs of the strongly worded letter from the privacy commissioner.
https://www.freezenet.ca/google-laughs-off-strongly-worded-letter-from-privacy-commissioner/
#Business #News #Privacy #Security #Canada #Google #PersonalInformation #PrivacyCommissioner #RightToBeForgotten
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The Canadian Press: Google won’t comply with ‘right to be forgotten,’ privacy watchdog says. “The federal privacy commissioner says individuals have the right to have some information delisted from search engine results, but Google is refusing to comply.”
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If anyone is willing to argue the toss without taking it personally and getting huffy, I'd be intrigued to explore how to Right to Archive interfaces with the #RightToBeForgotten. As well as the 'public not Public' consent-based ideas.
Each of these encodes some valid insights and sheds a certain light on how democratic rights apply in digital spaces. The question is, how to line them all up so they don't end up in conflict with each other, and can't be exploited for divide-and-rule purposes.
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📢 Excited to share that our paper “Semi-Markov modeling for disease incidence risk and duration” has been accepted for publication in Biostatistics & Epidemiology!
It explores cancer incidence risk and years of life lost due to cancer using a Semi-Markov illness-death model applied to Belgian Cancer Registry data, with implications for the right to be forgotten in insurance.
🔗 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24709360.2025.2517916
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Sage reminder from Samantha Edwards in the #Globe📰 today: 'Every time we check IG, buy something online, or Google opening hours, we make a Faustian bargain with tech companies: we get free apps & they get to collect & sell our personal data no matter the consequences,' e.g. #CambridgeAnalytica #RightTobeForgotten
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I wrote into #Hootsuite #Support asking for the images to deleted.
Their response is that my email is not tied to an (in)active account. No kidding? Maybe because I *deleted* it years ago?!
So now I have to figure out how to prove that I "own" these images.
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People, please, if you're going to send me a right to be forgotten request, please check if we're actually remembering you or displaying your account publicly.
I'll spit out a blog post on this quick as I can't fit it here and reply to this toot with it.
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Reading #loops privacy policy got me thinking about #RightToBeForgotten / #GDPR info update provision and #fediverse
Can federated software ever confirm to those laws? Best a server can do is remove/update local representation and send out a Delete/Update(Person) activity. But once a profile has been federated it is out of control. It's hard to even track where it federated to.
Is there any writing/analysis on this? How do folks running #ActivityPub services deal with delete/update requests?
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I'm trying to remember a website where you can see guides on how to delete your personal information from different services online.
I'm sure it has been shared here many times before. Anybody know what I could mean?PS: I was thinking about https://justdeleteme.xyz, but apparently remembered it a bit wrong.
https://justgetmydata.com and https://justwhatsthedata.github.io are also interesting.#privacy #DataRemoval #PersonalData #RightToBeForgotten #GDPR
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CW: Superstition, data collection, metadata
@onepict "its too late" comes to mind. Data collection for the last dozen years has been the Internet equivalent of Microsoft's new Recall "AI" project.
I see people freaking out about this obvious #privacy and #security risk who never think about how the entire Internet already is keeping snapshots of your life and keeping it indefinitely.
I love that #Canada has a privacy commissioner, they need more staff and funding though.
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RT by @eurireland: The right to be forgotten helps cancer survivors access financial services as they return to normal life.
An EU code of conduct for the financial sector on #RightToBeForgotten could make a real difference for cancer survivors.
My speech ⬇️
https://europa.eu/!Dynx3c[2024-05-14 16:42 UTC]
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WEBCAST MAR 20 – Tendances mondiales du droit à l’oubli / Global Trends in the Right to be Forgotten
On Wednesday March 20 2024 at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Columbia Global Freedom of Expression presents a webinar 'Global Trends in the Right to be Forgotten'
How has the so-called Right to be Forgotten evolved over the last decade since the landmark ruling Google Spain SL v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos in
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"Now #Google only informs publishers of the fact that a URL has been removed, without elaborating on what/why.
That leaves journalists unable to identify situations where the #righttobeforgotten has been misused to hide legitimate reporting on serial miscreants.
Google: We rolled out the new approach following a decision by Sweden’s data protection authority"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/15/google-stops-notifying-publishers-of-right-to-be-forgotten-removals-from-search-results -
A footnote prompted by my brilliant colleague Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott's excellent paper on the so-called 'right to be forgotten'.
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#AI #ML #MU #MachineUnlearning #TrustworthyAI #RightToBeForgotten: "Machine Unlearning (MU) is often analyzed in terms of how it can facilitate the “right to be forgotten.” However, in this Perspective, we show that MU can support the OECD’s five principles for trustworthy AI, which are influencing AI development and regulation worldwide. We also argue that the implementation of MU is not without ethical risks. To address these concerns and amplify the positive impact of MU, we offer policy recommendations across six categories to encourage the research and uptake of this potentially highly influential new technology."
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@LionsPhil @nicuveo
Another important thing about #hashtags and #searching.The reason #search on non-hashtagged words is lampooned whenever someone tries to implement it in fedi, is it denies discussing topics without exposing people to abusers who simply want to pick fights. Some #privacy, or #organicReach, in online spaces helps.
When people want to be more broadly found, they'll hashtag. If they don't, they won't.
There's a #RightToBeForgotten movement also, which also plays into this.
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Oncological right to be forgotten remains an unresolved issue in the EU https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/oncological-right-to-be-forgotten-remains-an-unresolved-issue-in-the-eu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #beatingcancerplan #cancer #righttobeforgotten
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I just reached out to Finland's Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman asking for clarification / information on the legality of Reddit's restoration of user data despite that no longer being under the consent of the user or their right to be forgotten. If it wasn't on their radar before, it is now.
Thanks to all of you posting on Mastodon about it (also referenced Hacker News).
Hoping to hear back.