#righttobeforgotten — Public Fediverse posts

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.

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

Sorry, #RickSantorum , there is no #RightToBeForgotten.

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

#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?

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

@sophia This is an important discussion to have. I think there are legitimate reasons to create personal and/or public archives.

My mail archive goes back a decade.. #CompulsiveHoarding #gdrp #privacy #righttobeforgotten #balancingOfInterests