2024/09/09 by Lowry Pressly · 1 voice · 5 citations
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Economics #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Ethics and Social Impacts of AI #Law and economics #Mathematics #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #Statistics #Value (mathematics)
paper · doi:10.1086/731431
published in Ethics 135(1), 65-87 (University of Chicago Press)
openalex publication_date 2024/09/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This article seeks to shed light on debates about the right to be forgotten by offering a new account of the right as grounded in the confidence that the direction of one’s life is up to one and worth the trouble that it takes to direct it. I show how this confidence is supported by what the right actually provides: the possibility of new social interactions unconditioned by information about one’s past. This view avoids pitfalls facing other accounts of the right’s moral basis, clarifies its relation to rights of privacy, and resolves several puzzles thought to face its practical application.