In a book review for The Washington Post, George Washington University Law Prof. Jeffrey Rosen discusses Neil Richards’ Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age. Richards, he writes, suggests the EU’s right to be forgotten is a “poorly defined idea.” It threatens the First Amendment in a way that Louis Brandeis, often considered the grandfather of privacy, would have rejected. “By exalting dignity over free thought and expression, the right to be forgotten requires privacy commissioners and lawyers at Google and Yahoo to make decisions about what sort of true information is in the public interest—precisely the kind of decision that citizens in a democracy need to make for themselves,” Rosen writes. (Registration may be required to access this report.)
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