Whom to Request People won’t even know who the various controllers are, which means they can’t make a request or sue Fazlioglu 13 Muge Fazlioglu, phd student in Law and Social Science @ Indiana, “Forget me not: the clash of the right to be forgotten and freedom of expression on the Internet” International Data Privacy Law, 2013, Vol. 3, No. 3 [PDI] in order to invoke the right to be forgotten, a user must first be able to identify the However, data controller(s) with whom one’s personal data has been shared.18 This task, can be a however, daunting one. users tend to ignore notices, often do not understand the In their sharing of personal data, choices and resist making them unless compelled to do so (which often aren’t meaningful in any event), (in which although the effective case they almost always make the choice required to obtain the desired service or product).19 Thus, exercise of the right to be forgotten depends to a large degree on user awareness, users are often not cognizant of the identities of the myriad data controllers who are digitally processing and storing their personal data.
Whom to Request People won’t even know who the various controllers are, which means they can’t make a request or sue Fazlioglu 13 Muge Fazlioglu, phd student in Law and Social Science @ Indiana, “Forget me not: the clash of the right to be forgotten and freedom of expression on the Internet” International Data Privacy Law, 2013, Vol. 3, No. 3 [PDI] However, in order to invoke the right to be forgotten, a user must first be able to identify the data controller(s) with whom one’s personal data has been shared.18 This task, however, can be a daunting one. In their sharing of personal data, users tend to ignore notices, often do not understand the choices (which often aren’t meaningful in any event), and resist making them unless compelled to do so (in which case they almost always make the choice required to obtain the desired service or product).19 Thus, although the effective exercise of the right to be forgotten depends to a large degree on user awareness, users are often not cognizant of the identities of the myriad data controllers who are digitally processing and storing their personal data.
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