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- Title
Privacy, Publicity, and the Right to Be Forgotten.
- Authors
Carnegy‐Arbuthnott, Hannah
- Abstract
Article 17 of the GDPR sets out a "right to erasure", which gives data subjects the right to obtain from data controllers the erasure of personal data concerning the data subject. One of the controversial aspects of this legislation is that search-engine providers such as Google are considered to be data controllers, and search-engine results are classed as personal data under certain circumstances. Their argument about privacy rights over public information has the consequence that there may be many cases in which one infringes a person's privacy right by unintentionally deducing something that a person did not intend to reveal from information which they willingly made public. While some have argued that we can have privacy rights over information that has been made public, I argue that appeals to privacy fail in cases concerning information that is legitimately a matter of public record. For example, in Judith Jarvis Thomson's influential view of privacy rights, once a person has made some information public, whether intentionally or unintentionally, they are considered to have thereby waived their privacy right over that information.
- Subjects
RIGHT to be forgotten; PERSONALLY identifiable information; PRIVACY; DATA privacy; SOCIAL science research
- Publication
Journal of Political Philosophy, 2023, Vol 31, Issue 4, p494
- ISSN
0963-8016
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jopp.12308