This book examines the fundamental question of how legislators and other rule-makers should
handle remembering and forgetting information (especially personally identifiable information)
in the digital age. It encompasses such topics as privacy data protection individual and
collective memory and the right to be forgotten when considering data storage processing and
deletion. The authors argue in support of maintaining the new digital default that (personally
identifiable) information should be remembered rather than forgotten.The book offers guidelines
for legislators as well as private and public organizations on how to make decisions on
remembering and forgetting personally identifiable information in the digital age. It draws on
three main perspectives: law based on a comprehensive analysis of Swiss law that serves as an
example technology specifically search engines internet archives social media and the
mobile internet and an interdisciplinary perspective with contributions from various
disciplines such as philosophy anthropology sociology psychology and economics amongst
others.. Thanks to this multifaceted approach readers will benefit from a holistic view of the
informational phenomenon of remembering and forgetting.This book will appeal to lawyers
philosophers sociologists historians economists anthropologists and psychologists among
many others. Such wide appeal is due to its rich and interdisciplinary approach to the
challenges for individuals and society at large with regard to remembering and forgetting in
the digital age.
