Kieran Forde

The AI right to unlearn: Reconciling human rights with generative systems | IAPP The Cirrus Institute for AI and Data Governance's Nicoletta Kolpakov explores the growing field of research known as machine unlearning: methods that aim to make a large language model forget specific...

(Feb 25, 2026) The AI right to unlearn: Reconciling human rights with generative systems
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"The right to be forgotten was forged in an era of search engines; the right to unlearn must be crafted for an age of generative systems"

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Italy orders Amazon to stop processing sensitive employee data after privacy ruling | Digital Watch Observatory Regulators in Italy blocked Amazon’s use of sensitive employee data, citing excessive surveillance and retention practices that violated EU privacy rules governing workplace information.

(Feb 26, 2026) Italy orders Amazon to stop processing sensitive employee data after privacy ruling
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"...investigators found that the company gathered details ranging from health conditions to union involvement."

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Irish settlers' diverse roles in Native American history unveiled by TG4 in Éire agus Na Chéad Naisiún - Donegal News TG4 is proud to present Éire agus Na Chéad Naisiúin, a landmark documentary which uncovers the untold story of Irish interaction with the First Nations of North America. Filmed as a road movie across ...

Éire agus Na Chéad Náisiúin [2025: 79 mins]

“Ireland and the First Nations”: A documentary from the Irish-language TV station TG4

"From trade and war to alliances and betrayal, this film explores the complex and often contradictory roles Irish settlers played in shaping Native American history"

(Feb 18, 2026) European Data Protection Board (EDPB) identifies challenges hindering the full implementation of the right to erasure
www.edpb.europa.eu/our-work-too...

“lack of appropriate internal procedures to handle requests / sufficient information provided to individuals”

#RightToBeForgotten

Remember me not: Resisting algorithmic memory The human right to be forgotten is essential to protecting privacy and agency.

(Feb 20, 2026) Remember me not: Resisting algorithmic memory
www.openglobalrights.org/remember-me-...

"Forgettability is ultimately about agency—not erasing history, but restoring the freedom to move beyond past and current harms"

#RightToBeForgotten

Supreme Court stays order invoking the “Right to Be Forgotten” for removal of news reports & judicial records from the public domain The impugned directions, issued on the basis of a purported “right to be forgotten”, had the effect of erasing publicly accessible court records and news reports from the digital public domain.

(Feb 19, 2026) [Indian] Supreme Court stays order invoking the “Right to Be Forgotten” for removal of news reports & judicial records from the public domain
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Meta Patents AI to Run Accounts of Dead Users Meta has patented AI to manage accounts of deceased users, creating digital personas that continue posting and interacting after death.

(Feb 17, 2026) Meta Patents AI to Run Accounts of Dead Users
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"The most uncomfortable question grief tech forces us to ask isn’t about technology at all but about control. Specifically, who has control over your digital self once a person is dead?"

#RightToBeForgotten

Surge in Polish requests to remove search results: daily Poles are increasingly asking for online content about them to be removed from search results, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported on Monday, citing figures from Google.

(Feb 16, 2026) Surge in Polish requests to remove search results:
www.polskieradio.pl/395/7789/Art...

"Poland now ranks seventh in the European Union for such requests. About half of the submissions to Google are approved"

#RightToBeForgotten

The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™ As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...

"Rather than building courses through faculty expertise or disciplinary knowledge, faculty gather complaints from alums now trying to get real jobs, feed those complaints into AI, and allow the system to revise the course accordingly."

PRIVACY IS A HUMAN RIGHT, NOT A CASUALTY OF KENYA'S DIGITAL FUTURE - Amnesty Kenya Digital surveillance refers to the use of technology to monitor, intercept, collect, and analyze digital communications and metadata.

(Jan 30, 2026) Privacy is a human right, not a casualty of Kenya’s digital future
www.amnestykenya.org/privacy-is-a...

"The focus should be on ensuring that the core human right to privacy is never sacrificed for progress."

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Türkiye acts to protect children’s privacy with proposed ‘right to be forgotten’ - Türkiye News Türkiye’s parliamentary subcommittee on children’s rights has called for legal recognition of the “right to be forgotten” to protect children’s privacy in the digital age, warning that parents’ social...

(Feb 3, 2026) Türkiye acts to protect children’s privacy with proposed ‘right to be forgotten’
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-acts...

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Unmasking EdTech's Surveillance Infrastructure in the Age of AI Danai Nhando discusses how the PowerSchool breach, which exposed 62M student records, reveals systemic edtech data governance failures.

Unmasking EdTech's Surveillance Infrastructure in the Age of AI
www.techpolicy.press/unmasking-ed...

"For the 62 million students whose records were exposed, the breach is not an incident with a defined endpoint. It is an ongoing condition of vulnerability that will persist throughout their lives"

Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users,’ internal documents say A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."

(Jan 23, 2026) Google's work in schools aims to create a 'pipeline of future users,' internal documents say
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/google-schools-aims-pipeline-future-users-internal-documents-rcna255175

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BC Assessment Changes Website After Privacy Failure | The Tyee An advocate says homeowners’ names were revealed, creating potential safety risks.

“This seemed like something that was done especially clumsily.” BC Assessment has disabled a new tool on its website that made the names of the owners of every property in the province easily available to anyone.

Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

That is made clear more than once in the article.
The main issue is that this was done unintentionally
The $10 fee also acts as a "desirable inefficiency", like speed bumps near schools, so users have to take extra steps/effort such that protection is afforded to a certain context.

Great work here from @spencerizen.bsky.social and the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) @bcfipa.bsky.social

“What we wanted to do was...look at how analysts who are responsible for receiving and processing our FOI requests really do their work”

#PrivacyIsAPublicGood

The substance of this excellent speech impacts us all: “[I]n the Digital Age, our data is no longer about us – 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬....Privacy isn’t about hiding what you don’t want to share with other people. It’s about controlling what we do share. It’s about expressing who we are.”

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AI Models May Conflict With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Mandates Neural networks cannot extract individual data without rolling back the entire model, which undermines competitive advantage. Organizations must understand their

(Nov 27, 2025) AI Models May Conflict With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Mandates
www.bankinfosecurity.com/ai-models-co...

"If you've trained the model on my personal data, and I come to you and say, 'Don't use it anymore.' Guess what? You can't. It's embedded in the model..."

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The right to be forgotten does not include the right to be forgiven A ruling forbidding media from naming a convicted criminal who defrauded a savings scheme does not mean that people will cease judging him

(Nov 29, 2025) The right to be forgotten does not include the right to be forgiven
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"[W]hen the right to be forgotten is used to censor the media and the reporting of well-known facts, we are entering dangerous territory."

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Canada’s emerging “right to be forgotten”: Federal Privacy Commissioner rules on de‑listing On August 27, 2025, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the OPC), Canada’s federal privacy regulator, determined that in certain circumstances, search results for an individual’s name ca...

(Nov 11, 2025) Canada’s emerging “right to be forgotten”_ Federal Privacy Commissioner rules on de‑listing
www.dentons.com/en/insights/...

"The OPC determined that in certain circumstances, individuals have a right to de-listing through the application of PIPEDA’s overarching privacy principles"

"The company says in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court this month that it “promptly complied” with the tribunal’s order by 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, in a practice known as “geo-blocking.”

Geo-blocking ≠ #RightToBeForgotten

Story of cities #25: Shannon – a tiny Irish town inspires China’s economic boom Created in 1959 to lure foreign investors with tax breaks, the Shannon Free Zone proved revolutionary across the world. But in today’s world of looser trade and tax havens, Ireland’s innovators face a...

(April 19, 2026) Story of cities #25: Shannon – a tiny Irish town inspires China’s economic boom
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OpenAI: ChatGPT Wants Legal Rights. You Need The RTBF
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"If AI systems are going to remember us, recommend things to us, or even influence us, we’d better know exactly what they remember & why. Otherwise, it’s not personalization. It’s manipulation”

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"In a world where technology has shattered the boundaries of time and memory, refusing to remain silent in the face of the unwanted permanence of digital memories is, ultimately, a defense of the human dignity of future generations."

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John Fletcher Moulton. (1924). Law and Manners ["Obedience to the Unenforceable"]. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑡𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐. archive.ph/5Sw23

(Oct 17, 2023) AI, AI, and chicken nuggets
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⬆ Some of my thoughts on this from two years ago; time to update the metaphor, perhaps.

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Erasing personal data in an AI era Can inaccurate personal data produced by AI be deleted? As the right of erasure evolves in the AI era, legal and technical challenges are growing.

(Oct 2, 2025) Erasing personal data in an AI era
www.leidenlawblog.nl/articles/era...
"Once data has been used to train a model, it may not be technically possible to remove the influence of a particular data point."

#RightToBeForgotten

TikTok efforts to protect children ‘inadequate’: Privacy commissioner An investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner reveals that TikTok has been collecting sensitive data from children and using that information to send them targeted ads and tailored content — even ...

TikTok efforts to protect children ‘inadequate’: Privacy commissioner
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"TikTok has been collecting sensitive data from children & using that information to send them targeted ads & tailored content..."

#RightToBeForgotten

a-ha - Take On Me [ Live From MTV Unplugged, Giske / 2017 ] YouTube video by ahaVEVO

Nice.
My favourite version below:

a-ha - Take On Me [ Live From MTV Unplugged, Giske / 2017 ] www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKM...

(Aug 29, 2025) Notes from the IAPP Canada: Right to be forgotten challenge continues to evolve
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{International Association of Privacy Professionals}

"This case, for me, is a glaring example of the lack of harmonization we have globally."

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