The AI right to unlearn: Reconciling human rights with generative systems | IAPP The Cirrus Institute for AI and Data Governance's Nicoletta Kolpakov explores the growing field of research known as machine unlearning: methods that aim to make a large language model forget specific...

(Feb 25, 2026) The AI right to unlearn: Reconciling human rights with generative systems
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"The right to be forgotten was forged in an era of search engines; the right to unlearn must be crafted for an age of generative systems"

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Italy orders Amazon to stop processing sensitive employee data after privacy ruling | Digital Watch Observatory Regulators in Italy blocked Amazon’s use of sensitive employee data, citing excessive surveillance and retention practices that violated EU privacy rules governing workplace information.

(Feb 26, 2026) Italy orders Amazon to stop processing sensitive employee data after privacy ruling
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"...investigators found that the company gathered details ranging from health conditions to union involvement."

#RightToBeForgotten

(Feb 18, 2026) European Data Protection Board (EDPB) identifies challenges hindering the full implementation of the right to erasure
www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-too...

“lack of appropriate internal procedures to handle requests / sufficient information provided to individuals”

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Remember me not: Resisting algorithmic memory The human right to be forgotten is essential to protecting privacy and agency.

(Feb 20, 2026) Remember me not: Resisting algorithmic memory
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"Forgettability is ultimately about agency—not erasing history, but restoring the freedom to move beyond past and current harms"

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Supreme Court stays order invoking the “Right to Be Forgotten” for removal of news reports & judicial records from the public domain The impugned directions, issued on the basis of a purported “right to be forgotten”, had the effect of erasing publicly accessible court records and news reports from the digital public domain.

(Feb 19, 2026) [Indian] Supreme Court stays order invoking the “Right to Be Forgotten” for removal of news reports & judicial records from the public domain
internetfreedom.in/supreme-cour...

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Meta Patents AI to Run Accounts of Dead Users Meta has patented AI to manage accounts of deceased users, creating digital personas that continue posting and interacting after death.

(Feb 17, 2026) Meta Patents AI to Run Accounts of Dead Users
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"The most uncomfortable question grief tech forces us to ask isn’t about technology at all but about control. Specifically, who has control over your digital self once a person is dead?"

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Surge in Polish requests to remove search results: daily Poles are increasingly asking for online content about them to be removed from search results, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported on Monday, citing figures from Google.

(Feb 16, 2026) Surge in Polish requests to remove search results:
www.polskieradio.pl/395/7789/Art...

"Poland now ranks seventh in the European Union for such requests. About half of the submissions to Google are approved"

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PRIVACY IS A HUMAN RIGHT, NOT A CASUALTY OF KENYA'S DIGITAL FUTURE - Amnesty Kenya Digital surveillance refers to the use of technology to monitor, intercept, collect, and analyze digital communications and metadata.

(Jan 30, 2026) Privacy is a human right, not a casualty of Kenya’s digital future
www.amnestykenya.org/privacy-is-a...

"The focus should be on ensuring that the core human right to privacy is never sacrificed for progress."

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Türkiye acts to protect children’s privacy with proposed ‘right to be forgotten’ - Türkiye News Türkiye’s parliamentary subcommittee on children’s rights has called for legal recognition of the “right to be forgotten” to protect children’s privacy in the digital age, warning that parents’ social...

(Feb 3, 2026) Türkiye acts to protect children’s privacy with proposed ‘right to be forgotten’
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-acts...

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Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users,’ internal documents say A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."

(Jan 23, 2026) Google's work in schools aims to create a 'pipeline of future users,' internal documents say
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/google-schools-aims-pipeline-future-users-internal-documents-rcna255175

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We want digital consumer protection here in WA too, @governorferguson.bsky.social - Thanks!

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Newsrooms decide some personal shames shouldn’t last forever — Tom Arenberg When the person of interest in the Brown University shooting went free, multiple national news organizations scrambled to remove his name from published stories that were based on confidential sou...

Journalists write about the worst mistakes of people’s lives. But sometimes they’ll erase them.

With a radical idea of mine.

A 2.5-minute blog post: www.tomarenberg.net/blog/2025/12/16/newsrooms-decide-some-personal-shames-shouldnt-last-forever

#Journalism #NewsMedia #RightToBeForgotten

Datenschutz, Data Protection #Politiker als #Stakeholder für eh alles und bei allem, was im #Nationalrat beraten wird? #DPA sagt nein.
#GDPR #DSGVO #Art17 #Löschung #RightToBeForgotten

The substance of this excellent speech impacts us all: “[I]n the Digital Age, our data is no longer about us – 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬....Privacy isn’t about hiding what you don’t want to share with other people. It’s about controlling what we do share. It’s about expressing who we are.”

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AI Models May Conflict With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Mandates Neural networks cannot extract individual data without rolling back the entire model, which undermines competitive advantage. Organizations must understand their

(Nov 27, 2025) AI Models May Conflict With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Mandates
www.bankinfosecurity.com/ai-models-co...

"If you've trained the model on my personal data, and I come to you and say, 'Don't use it anymore.' Guess what? You can't. It's embedded in the model..."

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The right to be forgotten does not include the right to be forgiven A ruling forbidding media from naming a convicted criminal who defrauded a savings scheme does not mean that people will cease judging him

(Nov 29, 2025) The right to be forgotten does not include the right to be forgiven
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"[W]hen the right to be forgotten is used to censor the media and the reporting of well-known facts, we are entering dangerous territory."

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In our new post, “What Happens to the Right to Be Forgotten When AI Never Forgets? Is Data Erasure an Illusion?” EMILDAI student Rafiga Malikova dives into one of today’s most pressing questions on data erasure.

👉:
emildai.eu/what-happens...

#EMILDAI #RightToBeForgotten #DataProtection

"The company says in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court this month that it “promptly complied” with the tribunal’s order by 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, in a practice known as “geo-blocking.”

Geo-blocking ≠ #RightToBeForgotten

OpenAI: ChatGPT Wants Legal Rights. You Need The RTBF
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"If AI systems are going to remember us, recommend things to us, or even influence us, we’d better know exactly what they remember & why. Otherwise, it’s not personalization. It’s manipulation”

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Life after cancer: why the ‘right to be forgotten’ matters The right to be forgotten is not about compassion – it is about evidence and justice.

People who have recovered from cancer still face barriers to insurance, credit and mortgages – even years after treatment.
The ‘right to be forgotten’ aims to change that.
📖 Read more: www.healthpolicypartnership.com/life-after-c...

#CancerSurvivorship #RightToBeForgotten

The Sound You Hear When Data Is Deleted - Our digital era redefines forgetting as a process, not an instant. In the hum of servers and the whisper of code, we find that deletion isn’t

The Sound You Hear When Data Is Deleted wiobs.com/the-sound-yo... #DataPrivacy #DigitalEthics #AI #CyberSecurity #RightToBeForgotten

"In a world where technology has shattered the boundaries of time and memory, refusing to remain silent in the face of the unwanted permanence of digital memories is, ultimately, a defense of the human dignity of future generations."

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(Oct 17, 2023) AI, AI, and chicken nuggets
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⬆ Some of my thoughts on this from two years ago; time to update the metaphor, perhaps.

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Erasing personal data in an AI era Can inaccurate personal data produced by AI be deleted? As the right of erasure evolves in the AI era, legal and technical challenges are growing.

(Oct 2, 2025) Erasing personal data in an AI era
www.leidenlawblog.nl/articles/era...
"Once data has been used to train a model, it may not be technically possible to remove the influence of a particular data point."

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TikTok efforts to protect children ‘inadequate’: Privacy commissioner An investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner reveals that TikTok has been collecting sensitive data from children and using that information to send them targeted ads and tailored content — even ...

TikTok efforts to protect children ‘inadequate’: Privacy commissioner
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"TikTok has been collecting sensitive data from children & using that information to send them targeted ads & tailored content..."

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(Aug 29, 2025) Notes from the IAPP Canada: Right to be forgotten challenge continues to evolve
iapp.org/news/a/notes...
{International Association of Privacy Professionals}

"This case, for me, is a glaring example of the lack of harmonization we have globally."

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If you're curious about what using the Right to Be Forgotten actually entails in practice, check out:

(Feb 17, 2023) Using my Right to Be Forgotten
kieranfor.de/2023/02/17/u...

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➡ "It's acting as a permanent barrier to employment, even decades after serving their sentence," said Husein.

➡ "If you don't give people who have been convicted an opportunity to get back into the regular workforce, there might be additional recidivism"

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'Like a permanent barrier': Ontario needs to change hiring rules for people with criminal records, report says | CBC News More than one million people in Ontario have a criminal record. For many, the record causes barriers when it comes to finding meaningful work. An organization known for advocating for the betterment o...

(Aug 21, 2025) 'Like a permanent barrier': Ontario needs to change hiring rules for people with criminal records, report says
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"a new report...says Ontario's legal system continues to punish people long after they have been released from jail"

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The Internet’s Forgotten Pages That Refuse to Die - WIOBS Explore how forgotten websites, old fan pages, and archived content continue to survive online, shaping digital culture and raising

The Internet’s Forgotten Pages That Refuse to Die wiobs.com/the-internet... #InternetHistory #ForgottenWeb #DigitalCulture #Privacy #RightToBeForgotten