Right to be forgotten: Swiss cheese internet, or database of ruin?

Posturing over Google and the ‘right to be forgotten’ detracts from larger issues about respect for individuals v overreaching economic rights in digital space Imagine, 25 years ago, someone telling you: we really need to redress this massive social ignorance that, when you meet someone for the first time, you don’t know everything about them. What we ought to do is assemble a giant database. On everyone.Brilliant idea. But there are a couple of provisos, they add. This database will be so