The chance "to melt into the shadows of obscurity": Developing a "right to be forgotten" in the United States

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2018-04-03
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O'Callaghan, Patrick
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This chapter argues that there is some (limited) evidence of a right to be forgotten in the jurisprudence of U.S. courts. For the purposes of this argument, the right exists whenever interests in being forgotten and/or forgetting are understood as weighty enough to impose a duty on government and/or fellow citizens to respect those interests. Most of the relevant cases belong to the pre-digital era but nevertheless provide some doctrinal support for a right to be forgotten in the digital era. In particular, the chapter pays close attention to the privacy challenges associated with search engines and argues that it may be possible to implement a Google Spain-inspired right to be forgotten (in the sense of delisting or deindexing search results) in the United States.
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Right to be forgotten , U.S. , Digital era
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O’Callaghan, P. (2018) 'The chance "to melt into the shadows of obscurity": Developing a "right to be forgotten" in the United States', in Cudd, A. and Navin, M. (eds) Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy. Springer, Cham, pp. 159-174. AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice, vol 8. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74639-5_11
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© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a pre-copyedit version of a chapter published in Cudd, A. and Navin, M. (eds) Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy. Springer, Cham, pp. 159-174. AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice, vol 8. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74639-5_11 The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74639-5_11