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

Wed May 18 21:52:43 GMT 2016




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 CSL16CTRLZ when you order

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ctrl—z <http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ctrl--z>

*UK Postage and Packing FREE, Europe £4.50, RoW £4.99*

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   **Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australia.


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