by Daniel J. Solove
Is the right to be forgotten good or bad?
This is the question many are asking these days in light of the recent EU Court of Justice (ECJ) decision that requires search engines such as Google to remove personal data from search results when people request it. (For more background, I wrote about the ECJ decision last week.)
After the decision was released, critics attacked the right to be forgotten as impractical, undesirable, and antithetical to free speech.