"It’s against the law to refuse someone a job because they’ve got a spent conviction or caution, unless it’s because a DBS check shows that they’re unsuitable."
> Mankind has done perfectly well without a "right to be forgotten" for hundreds of thousands of years.
Mankind has done without total digital records of everyone's life, too. Now that we have those records, are they going to be used to make people's lives worse?
I feel this would be less controversial if it was "right to be de-indexed": finding a newspaper from a particular date should show the same information, but "find me all information relating to Joe Bloggs" is a much more complicated question.
They did. https://www.gov.uk/exoffenders-and-employment
"It’s against the law to refuse someone a job because they’ve got a spent conviction or caution, unless it’s because a DBS check shows that they’re unsuitable."
> Mankind has done perfectly well without a "right to be forgotten" for hundreds of thousands of years.
Mankind has done without total digital records of everyone's life, too. Now that we have those records, are they going to be used to make people's lives worse?
I feel this would be less controversial if it was "right to be de-indexed": finding a newspaper from a particular date should show the same information, but "find me all information relating to Joe Bloggs" is a much more complicated question.