Right to be Forgotten

Full Title or Meme

An attempt to allow an individual to censor specific User Public Information, in effect to retroactively turn User Public Information into User Private Information.

Context

Originally this right was created by judicial edict, itt is now enshrined in article 17 of the GDPR which says "The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the (Site or data) controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where" several limitations are excluded in the details that follow. Which is not really the Right to be Forgotten, but just a right to erasure of specifically identified information. In other words, the right of an individual to censor certain data in an attempt to rewrite the individual's own history in the real-world. As might be expected, lots of people would like to undo some of the actions from their past.

Whatever the high minded rhetoric might be the on this subject, the reality is more gritty.

Solutions

There are none known today.