ABSTRACT
There is widespread agreement that the internet has brought about reputational threats that were minimized in previous technological environments due to the way their architecture afforded a number of built-in, default mechanisms for “forgetting” information about a particular person. Popular discourse on the issue typically contrasts the approach taken in the EU via the Right to Be Forgotten with the absence of a single sweeping legal reform in the United States. This is of course sensible on one level, of course, as structurally they are indeed very different. Yet the contrast is smaller when we consider how the diverse endeavors of reputation management provide a supplementary restorative force for reputational “justice” that is not wholly dissimilar from the outcomes that are in evidence in the European context.
