Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

Prof. Dr. Florent Thouvenin is an Associate Professor of Information and Communications Law at the University of Zurich. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Executive Committee of the Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law (ITSL) at the University of Zurich and the Executive Director of the Swiss Forum of Communication Law (SF-FS). Prof. Dr. Herbert Burkert is a Steering Committee Member of the Digital Asia Hub and President of the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) where he taught public law as well as information and communication law. His research interests include law as Information and its role in regulating information flows in society, information technology as object and driver of regulation, and data protection and access to information regimes. Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He is a visiting professor at KEIO University (Japan) and also teaches at Fudan University School of Management (China). Urs Gasser's research and teaching activities focus on information law, policy, and society issues. Prof. Dr. Peter Hettich is Professor of Public Law at the University of St. Gallen where he also serves as a Director of the Institute of Public Finance, Fiscal Law and Law and Economics. His research interests include constitutional protections of economic freedoms and regulated markets, administrative law, competition law, construction and environmental law, infrastructure regulation and the law of public companies. He acts as Of Counsel to the Swiss law firm VISCHER in Zurich.

Part 1. Introduction.- Part 2. Legal Framework.- Storage Obligations.- Disposal Obligations.- Access Restrictions.- Prescription.- 3. Technological Developments.- Search Engines.- Social Media.- Internet Archives.- Mobile Internet.- 4. Interdisciplinary Perspectives.- FORGETTING - In a Digital Glasshouse?; Christine Abbt.- Remembering prevails over Forgetting: Archiving of Personal Data in the Analog and in the Digital Age; Christoph Graf.- Digitalization and social identity formation - A Sociological Point of View; Matthias Klemm.- The Digital Age and the Social Imaginary; Melinda Sebastian and Wesley Shumar.- On the economics of remembering and forgetting in the digital age; Mark Schelker.- A Political Economic Analysis of Transparency in a Digital World; Christine Benesch.- The Role of Temporal Construal in Online Privacy behaviours; Johannes Ullrich.- Remembering (to) Delete, Forgetting Beyond Informational Privacy; Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.-  Longevity: Impact on Remembering and Forgetting; Domenico Salvati.- On the Interplay between Forgetting and Remembering; Nikos Akitas.- Part 5. Design Guide.