Right to be forgotten?

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Spain asks: If Google search results make your business look bad, can you sue?

Spain has a tough set of policies regarding the "right to be forgotten," under which people can go to the courts or the country's data protection authority to demand companies delete various records about them. (For instance, Facebook might have to remove a person's photos from the Web if the person later wants them down). But this raises all sorts of thorny questions once it goes beyond a demand that some marketer remove your dossier from its database. What happens when you want to remove information from news accounts?

This raises some interesting questions. By empowering people to protect their privacy, we are also allowing ourselves to hide things that perhaps shouldn't be. What's worse? To reveal too much or to know too little?