Do Canadians have a Right To Be Forgotten online?
Podcast |
The Big Story
Media Type |
audio
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Publication Date |
Oct 03, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:22:09
It's 2019. By now plenty of Canadians have humiliating results in Google searches for their name. But do we need a process for making those listings disappear? The European Union has one—it's called the Right To Be Forgotten. And there's currently a debate in public and in the courts, over whether or not Canada needs such a framework. But if we did have it, who would get to exercise that right? Who would decide if a piece of information should vanish from Google or not? And ... should we even be allowed to hide true results about us online? GUEST: Michael Geist, Law Professor, University of Ottawa, online privacy specialist

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