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Right to be Forgotten

Technological advances in current times have created a wealth of accessible sources for information regarding topics from current events to recipes to history to automotive blogs. The phrase (and sometimes rebuke) “Google it” takes on a certain level of significance within most people’s lives. While it is now extremely easy to research a topic and access the information needed, it has also become exceedingly easy to perform a cursory internet search of a person’s name and find out many things about them. Before the internet, one had to dig through records in a library or a government building’s records repository to find similar information about a person. If a newspaper printed a story on a person, hardly anyone would see or remember it after the next day's paper came out. A “right to be forgotten” of a sort existed within the technology of how information was stored and catalogued. The internet has changed that. Now, practically anything that has ever been printed can be found
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