Google and the Right to Be Forgotten | Assignment

Running head: GOOGLE AND THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
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Question 1: In what ways has technology made it more difficult for individuals to protect their
privacy?
Technology has progressively become a threat to people’s privacy. Every person values his/her
privacy as well as the protection of their private scope of life. However, current advancements in
in technology are substantially threatening privacy and simultaneously reducing the amount of
control people have over personal data. As demonstrated in the case study, technology has
opened up the possibility of a range of deleterious consequences since it is enabling some
unauthorized users to access other people’s private information. Technology supports online
communications through various platforms that are prone to fall in the wrong hands, thus
violating the privacy of the users. Besides, technological systems such as Google search engines
and organization’s systems that are used to store individual’s data can be tempered with, hence
putting the people’s information at risk. These high-tech systems can also be accessed by any
person some with a bad intention of misusing individual’s private information. Some authorized
users such as hackers, for examples, can access online data with a purpose of stealing, distorting,
or destroying it by installing detrimental malware without the consent of the owner.
Question 2: Do you believe an individual should have the right to be forgotten, that is, to
remove information about themselves from the Internet? If so, should this right be limited,
and if so, how?