[ecrea] New book: Ctrl + Z

We would like to announce a new publication now available in paperback 
from New York University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Ctrl + Z***

The Right to Be Forgotten

*Meg Leta Jones***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ctrl--z_**__*


“/Ctrl + Z /argues powerfully that we should all take the advice of 
Google’s Eric Schmidt and be more careful about how we interact with one 
another online. Or as Leta Jones puts it: "We must all be stewards. 
Before you delete your next Facebook post, tweet, blog, comment, email, 
set of cookies, or chat, consider whether you are destroying history or 
exercising your power to participate in your digital 
identity.””--Richard Ovenden, /Financial Times/

“In language accessible to non-specialists, enriched by an 
interdisciplinary outlook and a plethora of examples and case law, Jones 
draws on legal cultures, international feasibility and interoperability 
and detailed information about the information about the information 
life cycle, and argues that both approaches, favouring and opposing the 
right to be forgotten, take only a partial view on the 
matter.”--Stefania Milan, /Times Higher Education/

A gripping insight into the digital debate over data ownership, 
permanence and policy

“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.

*Meg Leta Jones* is Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, & 
Technology at Georgetown University


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