Handbook of Media Economics, vol 1B

a number incorrectly, the result would be missed calls and wrong numbers until a new

directory was published a year later. But in the digital world, wrong information gets

repeated again and again, often showing up long after the original mistake was made.

While digital technology can perpetuate the mistakes others make about us, it also has

the same effect on the mistakes we make ourselves when younger.

It seems unlikely on the face of it that regulators are correct to tackle this weighty

problem by focusing on Google. Google may be a handy scapegoat, especially in Europe

where it is especially dominant in search. However, the American search giant is far from

the only source of digital data that threatens the right to be forgotten. Information