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Right to be Forgotten

2023/8/4
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Victor Meyer Schoenberger
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Soren Wheeler:互联网时代,新闻永久保存,对个人造成困扰,引发“被遗忘权”的讨论。 Chad Eppenrod:克利夫兰新闻网站Cleveland.com进行了一项实验,探讨“被遗忘权”,决定是否删除已发布的内容。 Molly Webster:Cleveland.com的主编Chris Quinn介绍了该网站处理“被遗忘权”请求的背景和过程;互联网时代,信息永久保存,人们容易因过往错误而受影响,引发了对“被遗忘权”的需求;Cleveland.com的“被遗忘权”实验引发了关于谁有权被遗忘以及如何做出决定的讨论;Cleveland.com的编辑团队每月开会一次,讨论“被遗忘权”请求,并根据既定规则做出决定;Cleveland.com的编辑们在决定是否删除信息时,会考虑文章的公共价值和对当事人的潜在伤害;法院的判决结果(例如撤销记录)是Cleveland.com编辑们在决策过程中考虑的重要因素;Cleveland.com的编辑们在决策中主要考虑的是:信息公开的价值是否大于其对当事人造成的伤害?预测信息未来的价值具有挑战性,这给“被遗忘权”的决策带来了难度;Tamir Rice案凸显了信息透明的重要性,以及不完整记录可能带来的风险;Cleveland.com保留了一个记录已删除信息的电子表格,以防将来需要参考。 Kelly McBride:新闻报道中公开个人信息,有助于公众了解潜在风险,例如雇佣有不良记录的人;全美各地的新闻机构都在努力应对“被遗忘权”问题,但鲜少公开讨论。 Victor Meyer Schoenberger:人类大脑会自然遗忘,但互联网时代,信息永久保存,这使得“被遗忘”变得困难,并可能导致社会缺乏宽容。 Deborah Dwyer:彻底清除过去是不可能的,但新闻机构可以重新评估信息的重要性,并更谨慎地选择哪些信息需要永久保存。 Seth:讲述了他因暴露行为被捕,以及相关报道对其生活造成的影响,并解释了其行为背后的原因;解释了他申请“被遗忘权”的原因和感受;考虑到了受害者的感受,并表达了希望他们不会因报道被删除而感到困扰。 Chris Quinn:新闻机构不应扮演“宽恕”的角色,但应帮助人们摆脱过往错误的影响;新闻机构的“被遗忘权”政策旨在帮助人们开启新生活,而非宽恕他们的过错;美国新闻机构在处理“被遗忘权”问题时,面临着保持编辑独立性和遵守第一修正案的挑战;Cleveland.com仍在继续其“被遗忘权”项目,并开发了新的工具来辅助其工作。

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In online news, stories live forever. The tipsy photograph of you at the college football game? It’s there. That news article about the political rally you were marching at? It’s there. A charge for driving under the influence? That’s there, too. But what if... it wasn’t?

Several years ago a group of journalists in Cleveland, Ohio, tried an experiment that had the potential to turn things upside down: they started unpublishing content they’d already published. Photographs, names, entire articles. Every month or so, they met to decide what content stayed, and what content went. In this episode from 2019, Senior Correspondent Molly Webster takes us inside the room where the editors decided who, or what, got to be deleted. And we talk about how the “right to be forgotten” has spread and grown in the years since. It’s a story about time and memory, mistakes and second chances, and society as we know it.

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