Viktor Mayer Schönberger on The Right to be Forgotten
Channel: IIEA
Date: 26/10/2011

About the Speech:
 
The European Commission intends to include the "right to be forgotten" in the upcoming revised data protection framework. This would allow users to remove/hide the data contained about them on social networks.
 
About the Speaker:
 
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. He had previously spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. His most recent book, the awards-winning 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age', has resulted in the ideas proposed in the book becoming official policy of the European Union.