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George Brock - The Right to be Forgotten: Privacy and the Media in the Digital Age - 9781784535926 - V9781784535926
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The Right to be Forgotten: Privacy and the Media in the Digital Age

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Description for The Right to be Forgotten: Privacy and the Media in the Digital Age Paperback. Series: RISJ Challenges Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circulate information in ways which either authors or subjects are unable to trace or control. Servers store data which can be found on the world wide web years after it has ceased to be accurate or relevant to its original use. These developments have given rise to a movement promoting a 'right to be forgotten': an argument that freedom of expression should be balanced by a right to erase information which affects an individual, under certain conditions. Rights ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
RISJ Challenges Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784535926
SKU
V9781784535926
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About George Brock
George Brock is Professor of Journalism at City University London. He was a journalist with The Observer and The Times between 1981 and 2009. At The Times he was Foreign Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor. He chaired the World Editor Forum for four years and sits on the board of the International Press Institute, chairing the IPI's British section. ... Read more

Reviews for The Right to be Forgotten: Privacy and the Media in the Digital Age
An eloquent account offering valuable cultural and historical context to help us grapple with the problematic idea of the Right to be Forgotten being developed inside and outside the EU. - Judith Townend, Lecturer in Media and Information Law, University of Sussex, Data regulation is creaking under the strain of information abundance, leaving both freedom of expression and ... Read more

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