Should you have the right to be forgotten online?

Oct 08, 2014, 12:13 PM

Should you have the right to be forgotten online?

Earlier this year a European Court of Justice ruling said that people had the "right to be forgotten" by Google.

The internet means that newspaper articles, photographs, anything on social media can be there forever.

But the "right to be forgotten" means that's not true anymore.

The Congleton Chronicle have been notified that one of their links has been removed from Google after a man convicted with domestic abuse moved out of the area and realised that potential employers could find out about it.

Perry Spiller talks to the newspaper's editor, Jeremy Cundliffe