#right-to-be-forgotten — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/736412/ Cancer survivors now have ‘right to be forgotten’ when seeking mortgage protection insurance #Business #CancerSurvivors #Éire #IE #InsuranceIreland #Ireland #MortgageProtectionInsurance #RightToBeForgotten #SimonHarris

ICYMI: EU court adviser says Diocese of Ghent may have to erase a man's baptism data: Churches must justify keeping records of people who leave, and a struck-through entry is no erasure, the C-12/25 opinion says. Will the Court of Justice follow? https://ppc.land/eu-court-adviser-says-diocese-of-ghent-may-have-to-erase-a-mans-baptism-data/ #EUCourt #DataPrivacy #BaptismRecords #ReligiousFreedom #RightToBeForgotten

https://www.europesays.com/ie/674417/ ‘You’re going to struggle’: Cancer survivors on the roadblocks to getting a mortgage #cancer #Éire #Health #IE #insurance #Ireland #IrishCancerSociety #MortgageProtection #RightToBeForgotten

Global News: Privacy watchdog takes Google to court over ‘right to be forgotten’ case. “Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations. The privacy commissioner’s office said a year ago that Google wouldn’t implement its recommendation to de-list specific […]

https://www.europesays.com/ie/654992/ ‘Right to be forgotten’ for cancer survivors to take effect in mid-October #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #cancer #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #insurance #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MortgageProtection #MortgageProtectionInsurance #News #RightToBeForgotten #SimonHarris #TopStories #TopStories

(Peru) The Right to Be Forgotten and Freedom of the Press: An Analysis of the Constitutional Court’s Ruling from the Perspective of the Principle of Proportionality

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.pressenza.com/2026/07/peru-the-right-to-be-forgotten-and-freedom-of-the-press-an-analysis-of-the-constitutional-courts-ruling-from-the-perspective-of-the-principle-of-proportionality/

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.

#privacy #personaldata #gdpr #ryanair #righttobeforgotten

https://www.europesays.com/ie/394982/ Remission period for cancer survivors seeking mortgage protection to be lowered to five years – The Journal #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #cancer #CatherineArdagh #DaffodilDay #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IrishCancerSociety #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #RightToBeForgotten #RobertTroy #SimonHarris #TopStories #TopStories #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

Has #Scuttlebutt #SSB #SecureScuttlebutt already solved the infinite storage problem? Or does it still use a forever growing blockchain?

#RightToBeForgotten #PermanentRecordsConsideredHarmful

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.

PUBLIC TRUST IN DATA GOVERNANCE IS CRUCIAL FOR KENYA'S DIGITAL FUTURE - Amnesty Kenya

amnestykenya.org/public-trust-…

If state agencies remain opaque and intrusive, even the Data Protection Act will not restore the public’s trust.

#Kenya #DataGovernance #DigitalGovernance #DataProtection #Privacy #RightToBeForgotten

#TheNextInternet

An interconnected self-configuring, self-addressing, robust, redundant, local-first, store & forward, delay & disruption tolerant, transport layer agnostic network over lines & peers owned & maintained by individual & communities, providing #DigitalLiteracy, #DigitalAutonomy, #ForwardSecrecy, #PrivacyAndSecurity, #PermaComputing

Without any gatekeepers, clouds, administrations, authorities, permanent records, blockchains, or middlemen

#MalleableSoftware #rightToBeForgotten

#GDPR #privacy #europe #CivitAI #RightToBeForgotten #Surveillance #venting

[1/4]
Tried to delete my CivitAI account under GDPR.
They told me: “Just use the button.”

No confirmation data would be erased.
No policy. No transparency.

Fine. I escalated to the Irish DPC.
Their reply?
“You’re from Ukraine. Not our problem.”
...👇

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

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.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/28/the-canadian-press-google-wont-comply-with-right-to-be-forgotten-privacy-watchdog-says/

it shouldn't be too hard to extend the right to be forgotten to deadnames as well, legislatively

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/showerthough[email protected]/t/1113073

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.

📢 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

#Biostatistics #CancerEpidemiology #RightToBeForgotten

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

During 2025, 32 #EU Data Protection Authorities (#dpa) will contact selected #controllers from different sectors across #Europe, either by opening new formal #investigations or doing fact-finding exercises about the right to be #forgotten. Art. 17 #GDPR

Are your #SAR procedures up-to-date?

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2025/cef-2025-launch-coordinated-enforcement-right-erasure_en

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679#art_17

#privacy #erasure #RightToBeForgotten

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.

#RightToBeForgotten

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.

#Pidgin #RightToBeForgotten #OpenSource

Internet firms to face stiffer fines for breaking EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ rules https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/internet-firms-to-face-stiffer-fines-for-breaking-eu-s-right-to-be-forgotten-rules/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Facebook #Google #righttobeforgotten

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?

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

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

#EUCancerPlan

[2024-05-14 16:42 UTC]

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

https://isoc.live/17485/

#post #columbiagfoe #RightToBeForgotten

"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'.

#RightToBeForgotten #GDPR

https://listed.to/@24601/48235/search-and-distortion

#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."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4643518

@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.

PSA: Right, I decided that chances are nothing I post will be of interest to anyone, if it ever is, after a year. The world moves on, so I turned on the auto-delete.

#righttobeforgotten

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

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.

#dataprotection #righttobeforgotten #gdpr #reddit

@three @feditips

Perfect.

Here is our catch regarding the potential fork:

In the #EU, #Argentina, and the #Philippines, the #RightToBeForgotten is codified.

How about this, then:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110528903363131137

Sorry, #RickSantorum , there is no #RightToBeForgotten.

Here’s a souvenir of his ‘date’ with convicted #Russian spy #MariaButina 👉 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTRoFuY5y/

@gimulnautti @nycCatHerder

#FreeSpeech + #1A in the face of pervasive #AI + #Trumpism

(4/n)

...years.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/fbi-wants-social-media-data/

Then, there are global regions like the #EuropenUnion, which still take #DataPrivacy quite seriously and where the #RightToBeForgotten (#RightToErasure) is enshrined in #CommunityLaw.*

No, IMHO in order to save #democracy we must not give governments the means to become a totalitarian #surveillance state, a case in point being...

*
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

@CH19545252 @ManyRoads @taylorlorenz Are you from a member state of the EU?
If so, they have a number of regulations to protect users of "social media", incl. eg #GDPR etc.

You have the rights to your data in the EU.

P.S.: Twitter cannot force you to give them a phone number. If you don't have one for them, you simply don't. 😉

@EU_Commission

#Privacy #DataRights #RightToBeForgotten #Twitter #DataTheft

#RightToBeForgotten might conflict with #AI:

1️⃣ AI cannot reliably #unlearn: Possible side effects; residual information might still exist.
2️⃣ A complete retraining for a #GPT3-like model presumably costs several million US$ in electricity alone.
3️⃣ "Late" additional training *might* impact #AIsafety:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-is-bing-so-reckless

Anyone know of a #RTBF claim against an #LLM, e.g. #OpenAI?

I've been filing #privacy requests with the new cr app, and I'm shocked by #Ancestry's data removal policy. This shit is literally "hey find the data we collected on you and DIY."
How is this possibly legal under any relevant law?
#gdpr #ccpa #righttobeforgotten

Eliminalia says it uses the EU’s “right to be forgotten”, which can be used legitimately by criminals to request the removal of references to their convictions when it can reasonably be claimed that they have moved on from their crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/spanish-firm-erase-past-internet-eliminalia-web

#reputationmanagement #erasing #information #crime #eu #righttobeforgotten #rtbf

Australians able to opt out of targeted ads and erase their data under proposed privacy reforms
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/16/australians-able-to-opt-out-of-targeted-ads-and-erase-their-data-under-proposed-privacy-reforms

This appears to be inspired by the GDPR protections in the EU without being a total copy and giving us the same level of protection.

Looks like the usual suspects are opposing this proposed improvement to privacy, transparency, and accountability: political advertising and big business represented by the Business Council of Australia.

#AusPol #GPDR #Advertising #Privacy #PrivacyAct #Consent #RightToBeForgotten #DataBreach