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4 On the Economics of Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

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Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

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The digital revolution—the emergence of the Internet and new information and communication technologies—has generated much debate on regulating “remembering and forgetting”, i.e. the active management of information, and more specifically, regulation on the storage and deletion of information. This chapter provides some basic thoughts on and evaluations of the characteristics and properties of information, the role of government and potential interventions from an economics perspective.

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Schelker, M. (2018). 4 On the Economics of Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age. In: Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90230-2_11

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