Algorithmic memory and the right to be forgotten on the web

Dans le cadre du « Groupe de lecture en épistémologie sociale » animé par Gloria Origgi & Serena Ciranna (Institut Jean Nicod).

The debate on the right to be forgotten on Google involves the relationship between human information processing and digital processing by algorithms. The specificity of digital memory is not so much its often discussed inability to forget. What distinguishes digital memory is, instead, its ability to process information without understanding. The specificity of algorithmic processing makes it possible to bypass the paradox of remembering to forget, which up to now blocked any human-based forgetting technique. Working differently from human intelligence, algorithms can implement, for the first time, the classical insight that it might be possible to reinforce forgetting not by erasing memories but by multiplying them.

Biographie