European legislation threatens to create a new legal industry for dismantling the searchable past. But the web itself is already a gigantic memory hole, burying history beneath endless screeds of white noise. In the heated attention economy, perhaps a greater plight is faced by the millions striving to be searchable but ultimately lost in the long tail?

Read my Guardian article here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/30/right-to-be-forgotten-most-trying-remembered