personal information.

[keannu]

Source : Korean SAT Special Lecture, page 179, No 19
There is obviously a considerable range of possible legal, technical and social options for managing the explosion of personal information. For example, Mayer-Schönberger proposes mimicking human forgetting by introducing requirements to allow users to set expiry dates for digital information. As he further explains, this proposal would need to be supported by an appropriate legal framework. Although these sorts of proposals are worth pursuing, they face considerable practical barriers to implementation. To begin with, such a fundamental change in our technology infrastructure would require expenditure of considerable resources. It may, moreover, be difficult or impossible to get the agreement of technology companies to support the proposed transition. In addition, even if some form of technology-based expiry date were to be implemented, it may lead to a technological “guerrilla war”, as some interests may be concerned to circumvent technology-based expiry dates.

1. Does personal information mean one's id, password, address, date of birth, etc or stuff posted on SNS?
2. What does human forgetting mean?
3. Is this because these technology companies are related to some swindlers in need of personal information to sell to other companies which will misuse or extort it?

It may, moreover, be difficult or impossible to get the agreement of technology companies to support the proposed transition

 

[probus]

Source : Korean SAT Special Lecture, page 179, No 19
There is obviously a considerable range of possible legal, technical and social options for managing the explosion of personal information. For example, Mayer-Schönberger proposes mimicking human forgetting by introducing requirements to allow users to set expiry dates for digital information. As he further explains, this proposal would need to be supported by an appropriate legal framework. Although these sorts of proposals are worth pursuing, they face considerable practical barriers to implementation. To begin with, such a fundamental change in our technology infrastructure would require expenditure of considerable resources. It may, moreover, be difficult or impossible to get the agreement of technology companies to support the proposed transition. In addition, even if some form of technology-based expiry date were to be implemented, it may lead to a technological “guerrilla war”, as some interests may be concerned to circumvent technology-based expiry dates.

1. Does personal information mean one's id, password, address, date of birth, etc or stuff posted on SNS?

Yes. All of that and more. It also includes your likes, dislikes and in short, anything about you

2. What does human forgetting mean?

I forget things sometimes. So do you. So does everybody.





3. Is this because these technology companies are related to some swindlers in need of personal information to sell to other companies which will misuse or extort it?

I don't think so. Companies exist to make money. If we want a free society there is no practical way to stop them collecting and trading our personal information. Some individuals try very hard to do so, but most of us, if we even think about it at all, just shrug and move on with our lives.

It may, moreover, be difficult or impossible to get the agreement of technology companies to support the proposed transition[/U]

See my comments above.

 

[keannu]

See my comments above.

2. What does human forgetting mean?

I forget things sometimes. So do you. So does everybody.
Thanks, but I meant what it means it the context.

 

[emsr2d2]

Look up the difference between "ID" and "id". You used the second. You needed the first.

 

[teechar]

2.
Thanks, but I meant what does it mean it the above context.

It means the process/phenomenon of forgetting things.

 

[keannu]

It means the process/phenomenon of forgetting things.

Why does it suppose imitating human forgetting when it is a bad thing? I don't get what it means.
Also, the following correction is wrong. it should be "what it means ..."
Thanks, but I meant what does it mean it the above context.


There is obviously a considerable range of possible legal, technical and social options for managing the explosion of personal information. For example, Mayer-Schönberger proposes mimicking human forgetting by introducing requirements to allow users to set expiry dates for digital information

 

[GoesStation]

Why does it suppose imitating human forgetting when it is a bad thing? I don't get what it means.

The phrase is about the way that people forget things. This is neither good nor bad.

Also, the following correction is wrong. it should be "what it means ..."
Thanks, but I meant what does it mean in the above context.

One letter was wrong. I've fixed it above. The helping verb does is followed by a bare infinitive. "Means" would be wrong.

 

[jutfrank]

The view of neuroscience is that forgetting is a good thing. If we weren't able to forget, we wouldn't function. Forgetting is a process that we've evolved, not a limitation of the brain.

 

[tzfujimino]

I've googled "Mayer-Schönberger" and found this:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691150369/delete

I hope it will help you understand the passage better.