We've all written or posted things on the internet that we've later regretted, whether it's a poorly thought-out comment on the front-page post of a tech website or a potentially scandalous photo from a drunken night out. But law professor
Jeffrey Rosen writes that the obsessive editing of one's self-image on the internet rides a fine line between privacy and censorship. His case in point: Argentinian pop star Virginia Da Cunha, who after finding that pictures of herself from a racy photoshoot had leaked online sued Google and Yahoo, demanding they take down the photos from wherever they had spread. An Argentinian judge ruled in Da Cunha's favor, citing a "right to be forgotten" that forced the search providers to delink content found by searching her name. Yahoo, saying they lacked the ability to remove the photos individually, even went as far as to block all sites referring to Da Cunha's name from their Argentinian search site.
