Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. 2009

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The Internet of Things: A survey (2010, background): “Finally, studies are still at the beginning regarding digital forgetting as this has been recognized as an important issue only recently [92].”
Learning Analytics (2013, background): “Although learning analytics offer huge opportunities to gain a more comprehensive understanding of student learning, our data are incomplete (e.g., Booth, 2012; Mayer-Schönberger, 2009; Richardson, 2012a, 2012b) and “dirty” (Whitmer et al.”
4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community (2011, background): “" Similarly, Mayer-Schonberger (2009) emphasizes the value of " societal forgetting, " where " the limits of human memory ensure that people's sins are eventually forgotten.”
Extended Self in a Digital World (2013, background): “This is an elaborate selfextension and self-enhancement, but Mayer-Schönberger (2009) worries that the allure of perfect memory is illusory because in retrieving bits and pieces we decontextualize these events.”
The Debate on the Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers (2015, background): “In post-1989 Europe, the possibility to be forgotten is seen as an extra measure fostering democracy and plurality (Mayer-Schönberger 2011).”
Privacy and human behavior in the age of information (2015, background): “Themonitoring of personal information is ubiquitous; its storage is so durable as to render one’s past undeletable (1)—a modern digital skeleton in the closet.”