Recently a very powerful meme has found its way into the discussion about data protection and privacy: The "right to be forgotten". Even the EU champions it in side by side with German and international privacy advocates. Here in Germany the "right to be forgotten" also has a twin sibling called the "digitale Radiergummi" ("digital eraser" in English). The recently bubbled up again when Facebook decided to switch all profiles to the new "timeline" view that's basically an album of everything Facebook knows about a person. What both of those concepts mean is that every person, every user of the Internet should have the right to have the data a service or company has gathered about the user deleted. This is thought to be a suitable way to fight one of the main problem that many privacy advocates have with the net, namely its inability to forget. You've probably heard the following advice in this or in similar form:
Don't share your party pictures online because the Internet does not fo
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