Online Reputation : Réputation en ligne

By discussing the experiences of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) to date, we hope to advance the discussion on how best to provide individuals with recourse when their online reputation is negatively affected by information they themselves or others have posted about them. [...] The authors make the case that the process of giving the public access to public records needs to be reconsidered, with privacy at top of mind, given that the Internet distorts information just like a house of mirrors distorts images. [...] Of particular relevance to the discussion on privacy and reputation is the following: A house of mirrors is a complex of imagery, with bouncing, highlighting, and shading of images that produce a surprising experience. [...] In the words of Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, the head of France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) as well as the Article 29 Working Party, the right to be forgotten “gives the possibility to each of us not to alter the past but to have the 24 possibility to control a little bit what we have done in the past and their digital appearance.” 25 As of the writing of this pap [...] According to its website, Google takes into account a number of considerations in deciding whether to comply with a takedown request: We must balance the privacy rights of the individual with interests that speak in favour of the accessibility of information including the public’s interest to access to information, as well as the webmaster’s right to distribute information.