Published by Gbaf News
Posted on June 3, 2014
3 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
By Mark Somers, Technical Director at 4most Europe (www.4-most.co.uk)
It’s a story that has dominated the national newspapers since the recent story of the internet privacy ruling against Google broke this month. But it has certainly sparked a great deal of debate and opinion amongst the big search engines, internet security and mobile industries to name a few. The question however, still remain: should a person have the right to be forgotten or ‘deleted’ from internet history if they so wish? Our Technical Director Mark Somers says yes, and this is why…
Mark Somers
“Privacy for the individual is important for society and for the effective operation of an open free-market economy. Too often it is portrayed as a concern only for security wonks and those who have something to hide. In reality there are at least 2 important reasons for all consumers to demand legal protection to help redress the balance of power between the individual and large corporations:
We need legislation that enshrines the obligation on providers to enable users to use “free” services whether they choose to share (i.e. for companies to keep a record of) their data or not. This should be a fundamental consumer right, equivalent to the ability to get a refund on faulty goods – it isn’t just about the right to be forgotten, it is about the right to choose not even to be remembered.”
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