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Seeking Digital Redemption: The Future Of Forgiveness In The Internet Age, Meg Leta Ambrose

Meg Leta Ambrose

The Right to be Forgotten, a controversial privacy right that allows users to make information about themselves less accessible after a period of time, is hailed as a pillar of information privacy in some countries while condemned as censorship in others. Psychological and behavioral research indicates that one’s capacity to forget features of the past - or remember them in a different way - is deeply connected to his or her power to forgive others and move on, which in turn, has dramatic impacts on well-being. Second chances and the reinvention of self are deeply intertwined with American history and …