International
May 22, 2014
To forgive or forget
The EU's "right to be forgotten" ruling may seem like a win for privacy, but it's far more likely to have negative repercussions on free speech. By Nuala O'Connor
Forgetting is often not easy, and forgiveness is even more difficult, but both are fundamental parts of being human. In today's always on, always connected world, both forgetting and forgiving are made more challenging by ever-present reminders of past encounters, updates from acquaintances, and haunting old high school pictures suddenly appearing under the heading of #tbt.
Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union...
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