DISTORTING HISTORY

正Shinzo Abe’s personal political ambitions endanger the region’s stability Yin Shuzhang,76,can never forget one winter night in 1943.It was the night when her family and a neighbor’s family stayed in a small cave close to her village on the coast of east China’s Shandong Province to hide from Japanese soldiers patrolling the area.She and     

A historian's view on the right to be forgotten

This essay explores the consequences for historians of the ‘right to be forgotten', a new concept proposed by the European Commission in 2012. I first explain that the right to be forgotten is a radical variant of the right to privacy and clarify the consequences of the concept for the historical study of public and private figures. I then treat the hard cases of spent and amnestied convictions and of internet archives. I further discuss the applicability of the right to be forgotten to dead persons as part of the problem of posthumous privacy, and finally point to the ambiguity of the impact of the passage of time. While I propose some compromise solutions, I also conclude that a generalized right to be forgotten would lead to the rewriting of history in ways that impoverish our insights not only into anecdotal lives but also into the larger trends of history.     

Bilingually Mobile

正CHILDREN here are from various ethnic groups,notably Uygur,as well as Han.A main feature of the kindergarten’s early education is that although children are encouraged to speak Putonghua–standard Chinese–from a young age,care is taken not to let them forget their mother tongue,"Beibu Bay Radio(BBR)anchor Su Yan said on her micro-blog,which     

Tracking Progress

正Beijing provides opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs By Ji JingIn today’s fast-paced world it is easy to lose sight of essential details—a shortcoming one Beijing-based entrepreneur has sought to address with the invention of a novel kind of tracker."The product helps customers find missing objects and reminds them not to forget to take     

Germany's ‘Right to be forgotten’ – between the freedom of expression and the right to informational self-determination

Although never having defined it explicitly, German law and jurisprudence imparted a right to be forgotten which could be described as a right to delete long ago. Its basis can be found in the constitution where it is torn between the freedom of expression and the right to informational self-determination. Also, German legislature introduced non-constitutional provisions ensuring the deletion of personal data in specific cases that are applied regularly. This article aims to give an overview of the “German” right to be forgotten, its legal framework and its application in court.