RSA Talk — Delete

I men­tioned this a couple of posts back. Delete dis­cusses ‘The Virtues of Forgetting in the Digital Age’. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend but the RSA has — as always — made the audio of the talk avail­able to everyone. See the link below for details.

Google remem­bers everything we’ve searched for and when. Potentially humi­li­ating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyber-​​space for future employers to see. The written word made it possible for us to remember across gen­er­a­tions and time, yet now digital tech­no­logy is over­riding our natural ability to forget. Should the past be ever-​​present, ready to be on-​​screen at the click of a mouse?
Viktor Mayer-​​Schonberger, director of the inform­a­tion and innov­a­tion policy research centre at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, explains why current inform­a­tion rights and privacy fixes can’t help us, and proposes a simple solution - expir­a­tion dates on information.

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