[ecrea] New book: Ctrl + Z: The Right to Be Forgotten

We hope the following title will be of interest to you:


*Ctrl + Z***

*The Right to Be Forgotten***

/Meg Leta Jones/

     "In this timely and provocative book, Meg Jones takes on one of 
the most pressing issues of the digital age—must everything about us be 
permanently stored or is there room in our society and legal system for 
a 'right to be forgotten?' Jones’ great contribution is to cut through 
the rhetoric and extremism to chart a middle path: one in which we can 
have privacy and freedom of speech, in which we can access information 
without being constantly under the microscope ourselves. A must-read 
book for anyone interested in the Internet, privacy, or freedom of 
speech./Ctrl + Z /is sophisticated yet readable, scholarly yet 
contemporary, and an essential contribution to how we think about rights 
of deletion in a digital age."--Neil Richards,Washington University in 
St. Louis

     "[CTRL+Z] advocates that online privacy is a pressing issue, but 
the United States government just keeps procrastinating on the matter. 
As important as the issue is, it just doesn't appear to be on many 
people's minds--yet."--/Popmatters.com/

     "The legal and moral implications require a rethinking of much of 
what we take for granted, and Jones is plugged in to many of the 
conversations."--/Inside Higher Ed/

“This is going on your permanent record!” is a threat that has never 
held more weight than it does in the Internet Age, when information 
lasts indefinitely. The ability to make good on that threat is as 
democratized as posting a Tweet or making blog. Data about us is 
created, shared, collected, analyzed, and processed at an overwhelming 
scale. The damage caused can be severe, affecting relationships, 
employment, academic success, and any number of other opportunities—and 
it can also be long lasting.

One possible solution to this threat? A digital right to be forgotten, 
which would in turn create a legal duty to delete, hide, or anonymize 
information at the request of another user. The highly controversial 
right has been criticized as a repugnant affront to principles of 
expression and access, as unworkable as a technical measure, and as 
effective as trying to put the cat back in the bag. /Ctrl+Z/ breaks down 
the debate and provides guidance for a way forward. It argues that the 
existing perspectives are too limited, offering easy forgetting or none 
at all. By looking at new theories of privacy and organizing the many 
potential applications of the right, law and technology scholar Meg Leta 
Jones offers a set of nuanced choices. To help us choose, she provides a 
digital information life cycle, reflects on particular legal cultures, 
and analyzes international interoperability. In the end, the right to be 
forgotten can be innovative, liberating, and globally viable.

New York University Press

March 2016 256pp  9781479881703 HB £22.99now only £18.39* when you quote 
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