Fighting for the right to be forgotten on the Web

[Commentary] In the US, privacy experts are taking a new look at whether a right-to-be-forgotten law aimed at Internet search engines can coexist with the constitutional protections of freedom of speech and the press. Some see the answer in a combination of property and privacy rights -- "the concept that people have the right to control their private facts held by commercial entities, and that they don't expect to be widely available," says Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Fears about a European-style ruling's impact on free speech and the press are probably overwrought.