Vint Cerf is exactly right and the whole concept of the "right to be forgotten" is fundamentally flawed.

Not only is impossible from a technical perspective, it's bad from a policy perspective. Implementing something like will inevitably be abused by those that simply don't like the information that is out there, true or not.

We just need to get through this transition period to a time when people's online behavior is adjusted to the new reality.

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Vint Cerf comes down hard on the EU's proposed 'right to be forgotten' policy
While Vint Cerf is in the UK attending the launch of the Life Online, a museum exhibit that celebrates the origins of the internet, he's taking the time to voice his concern over what he sees as a…

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