Here’s a great article on an interesting issue.
In the era of search engines, are the subjects of embarrassing news articles ever entitled to some relief from the archives?
It’s one thing for a prospective employer to go to the library to rifle through yellowed copies of old newspapers looking for info on potential employees – something that’s never going to happen – it’s another when a story is archived forever on the internet.
Papers are being hit with more requests from average citizens asking that old stories be removed from internet archives as a matter of fairness and second chances.
