one of my favorite authors on the subject remains jean francois blanchette. he co-authored this article on the importance of forgetfulness back in 2002: Blanchette, J.-F. & Johnson, D. “Data retention and the panoptic society: The social benefits of forgetfulness”, The Information Society 18(1):1-13 (January/February 2002). blanchette's work is also interesting because it reflects on the tension between the unforgetting internet, matters of data authenticity, and the huge problem of data preservation. and, here is an article that might be relevant about a court in the U.S. that accepted pictures from a social network site of a young woman enjoying a party a number of weeks after a car accident with casualties in which she was the driver. The picture was used as proof that she lacked remorse: Wagstaff E (2007) Court case decision reveals dangers of networking sites. Daily Nexus News, URL http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=13440 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:29:39 -0300 From: Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor@gmail.com> To: List Aoir <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Campaigns about privacy in internet Message-ID: <AANLkTinWy3e8zkjPKrZzicRw+7S+qS0+Q7_58aMnTxbR@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi! My friend Enrique Quagliano and me are running a little campaign about the importance of forgetting in the internet, based on the work of Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger (author of "Delete") The New York Times wrote about this issue in this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?pagewanted=1&_r... Do you know some cases of people loosing jobs, being threatened, etc, through social networks? Thanks a lot, Alejandro Tortolini Science and technology journalist / Teacher. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm