New (California) law lets teens delete digital skeletons
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Remember that dance-party photo you regretted posting online? How about the time you over-shared your feelings about your ex or made that comment about Barack Obama? All forever etched in the annals of the Internet.
Well, maybe not - at least if you're under 18.
Legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday will require Web companies, starting in 2015, to remove online activity - whether it be scandalous or simply embarrassing - should a minor request it.
... The bill, authored by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, pushes lawmakers deeper into the dicey debate over online privacy. As social media soars in popularity and Web companies cull more and more information about people's lives, questions continue to be raised about what Internet firms should and should not be doing with the data.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-law-lets-teens-delete-digital-skeletons-4837309.php
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)How can California enforce this upon a company operating in a different state (but available via the web in California)?
All in all, cool, but I don't see how this is feasible. Is the state going to legally pursue out of state web companies or does this only apply to the few located in the state?
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]But I like the idea and hope they find a way.
jmowreader
(50,589 posts)Apparently these guys never heard of reposting.
localroger
(3,634 posts)It's well meant but meaningless and unworkable. It is attempting to use the law to make the Internet something that it isn't.
cstanleytech
(26,349 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)A lot of kids who are posting things they will eventually regret will be aged-out of this when it goes into effect.
I think everyone should have the ability to scrub their posts, etc. WTF? Everyone seems to be giving away their privacy via Facebook. Having worked in marketing, I know how valuable this info is to marketers -- to be able to construct a psychographic image of consumers is something I dreamed of in my youth, but then rethought as a massive invasion of privacy literally as scary as "Minority Report."
Corporations and political parties can now send messages targeted precisely to individuals and their hopes and fears, regardless of the veracity of their claims.
The goal is a borg mentality, all coaxed in for different reasons, yet all thinking/buying/voting based on BS.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)We should all control "our data" and how the data is used. The use of our information, etc. should not be governed by a "tick the box" on a website with 25 pages of legal crap.
The time has come for people to stop participating in these sites. When they no longer have "eyes" their business will go to bankruptcy and be gone from us. Good riddance to Satan.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Swagman
(1,934 posts)implement it should not be criticised (unless you think laws against child porn etc are immaterial because they are difficult to enforce.)
thefool_wa
(1,867 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)they are going to decide to round pi to 3.0. And they are going to have about the same amount of success.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)It sure would make calculating logarithms easier in your head. Oh, and while we're at it, declare imaginary numbers as real, physical numbers. No sense in teaching math about things that cannot possibly exist!
Alamuti Lotus
(3,093 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)CA can not require out-of-state ISP's or websites to do such 'purges' of data. Not to mention the fact that most if not all of the Internet web pages are preserved on www.archive.org.
If this is allowed to stand, CA residents will see many companies avoiding this kind of 'purging of data' by simply not being available to them in that state.
And like others have said, why only children? Why can't adults have the same right?
It is always about 'protecting the children' yet the ideas are usually useless, political grand-standings that penalize adults who don't or would not 'harm' children or minors of any age.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)This is the Internet. It is all-knowing, all seeing, and it does not understand pleading, mercy, or excuses. It cannot be bought and it cannot be coerced--and once something is on the Internet, it will be there FOREVER.
Dr. Strange
(25,929 posts)Couldn't it be used against Holloway's site?
http://helpmesave300.com/
Or the public shaming tumblr?
http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/
Prometheus Perez
(23 posts)A second chance is desirable.