Great work here from @spencerizen.bsky.social and the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) @bcfipa.bsky.social “What we wanted to do was...look at how analysts who are responsible for receiving and processing our FOI requests really do their work” #PrivacyIsAPublicGood

The substance of this excellent speech impacts us all: “[I]n the Digital Age, our data is no longer about us – 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬....Privacy isn’t about hiding what you don’t want to share with other people. It’s about controlling what we do share. It’s about expressing who we are.” #RightToBeForgotten

(Nov 27, 2025) AI Models May Conflict With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Mandates www.bankinfosecurity.com/ai-models-co... "If you've trained the model on my personal data, and I come to you and say, 'Don't use it anymore.' Guess what? You can't. It's embedded in the model..." #RightToBeForgotten

(Nov 29, 2025) The right to be forgotten does not include the right to be forgiven www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/t... "[W]hen the right to be forgotten is used to censor the media and the reporting of well-known facts, we are entering dangerous territory." #RightToBeForgotten

(Nov 11, 2025) Canada’s emerging “right to be forgotten”_ Federal Privacy Commissioner rules on de‑listing www.dentons.com/en/insights/... "The OPC determined that in certain circumstances, individuals have a right to de-listing through the application of PIPEDA’s overarching privacy principles"

"The company says in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court this month that it “promptly complied” with the tribunal’s order by 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, in a practice known as “geo-blocking.” Geo-blocking ≠ #RightToBeForgotten

OpenAI: ChatGPT Wants Legal Rights. You Need The RTBF www.forbes.com/sites/jasons... "If AI systems are going to remember us, recommend things to us, or even influence us, we’d better know exactly what they remember & why. Otherwise, it’s not personalization. It’s manipulation” #RightToBeForgotten

"In a world where technology has shattered the boundaries of time and memory, refusing to remain silent in the face of the unwanted permanence of digital memories is, ultimately, a defense of the human dignity of future generations." #RightToBeForgotten

(Oct 2, 2025) Erasing personal data in an AI era www.leidenlawblog.nl/articles/era... "Once data has been used to train a model, it may not be technically possible to remove the influence of a particular data point." #RightToBeForgotten

TikTok efforts to protect children ‘inadequate’: Privacy commissioner www.cbc.ca/player/play/... "TikTok has been collecting sensitive data from children & using that information to send them targeted ads & tailored content..." #RightToBeForgotten

(Aug 29, 2025) Notes from the IAPP Canada: Right to be forgotten challenge continues to evolve iapp.org/news/a/notes... {International Association of Privacy Professionals} "This case, for me, is a glaring example of the lack of harmonization we have globally." #RightToBeForgotten

If you're curious about what using the Right to Be Forgotten actually entails in practice, check out: (Feb 17, 2023) Using my Right to Be Forgotten kieranfor.de/2023/02/17/u... #RightToBeForgotten

(Aug 21, 2025) 'Like a permanent barrier': Ontario needs to change hiring rules for people with criminal records, report says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... "a new report...says Ontario's legal system continues to punish people long after they have been released from jail" #RightToBeForgotten

(Sept 12, 2025) Nepal’s Youth Protesters Elect Interim Prime Minister via Discord nomusica.com/nepals-youth...

(July 27, 2025) OpenAI: ChatGPT Wants Legal Rights. You Need The Right To Be Forgotten. www.forbes.com/sites/jasons... "We’ve seen this play out before. In U.S. law, corporations were gradually granted legal personhood...Over time, personhood became a useful legal fiction" #RightToBeForgotten

(Aug 15, 2025) Outsourcing Our Memory: How Digital Tools Are Reshaping Human Thought www.skeptic.com/article/outs... "When we stop engaging our cognitive faculties, those neural pathways can weaken, making recall and retention more difficult over time" #ImperativeToRemember #RightToBeForgotten

(Jan 27, 2025) New research uncovers exotic electron crystal in graphene science.ubc.ca/news/january... Researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington, & Johns Hopkins have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure

“they are showing a particular indifference to Canadians’ privacy that could also be seen this month in the Carney government’s plan to allow police to go on warrantless fishing expeditions in people’s internet subscriber information. The whole thing is wrong” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

(Apr 17, 205) Meta is set to train its AI models with Europeans' public data, and you can stop it doing so www.techradar.com/computing/cy... "... these systems make it very hard (if not impossible) to exercise the GDPR's right to be forgotten" #RightToBeForgotten

(April 15, 2025) Poilievre says he'd pass a law that overrides a Charter right. That would be a first for a PM www.cbc.ca/news/politic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGsm...

If Canada wants closer European ties, we need European privacy standards, not American www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

"No generative AI was used in the making of this film". I noticed this disclaimer in the credits of Heretic. Story here: (Nov 9, 2024) The directors of A24's new horror film tell BI why they used their movie to slam Hollywood's 'weird' use of AI www.businessinsider.com/heretic-end-...

"There is no such thing as 'my Substack', there is only your writing, and a forever fight against the world of pure enshittification" I've enjoyed setting up my own website and having some more control over who / what / when people see what I choose make public.

A wonderful connection to the thoughts of Illich and McLuhan, and a fruitful analogy to help us think about the (inter)net closing around us.

Rewilding the self: Thinking along the Main Mall at UBC kieranfor.de/2024/11/17/r...