Along with the capacity of digital technology to retain information indefinitely has arisen a conversation about whether digital memory should mirror human memory in its “forgetting.”
The so-called right to be forgotten is on the minds of scholars, government regulators, industry executives and media users. The right is included in the 2018 European General Data Protection and has arisen in court cases, statutes and administrative rules in various countries.
Several scholars from Latin America joined with BYU communications professor Ed Carter to publish a book in 2018 on the right to be forgotten in the Spanish-speaking world. Three of the authors presented their research at the BYU School of Communications on September 20, 2018.In addition to Carter, presenters included María José Labrador of Universidad Mayor in Chile and María Teresa Nicolas Gavilan of Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. Carter and Labrador were co-editors of the book, which was published in Chile and is in Spanish.