Sorry for being so late in saying a word about this thread.
I think it is in their own interest and in the interest of their carers and communities that s offenders are never removed from s offenders registers - at the end of the day, this seems nothing compared with the evidence that sexually abused children never forget that experience and tend to become themselves abusers.
Having said that, I believe the argument has been exploited by the media beyond any rationale and even the above opinion should be considered critically, because it is evidently deeply emotional.
I remember 10 or 15 years ago the case of an italian software house very successful in distributing a leading email server product. The entrepreneur had the idea of diversyfing its portfolio and entered the lucratice market of soft-po***graphy (calendars, dat*ng, first pionering forms of social networks). For that scope, he acquired (at a ridiculy low price) very popular domains in that sector that (fancy that!) had been closed down or abandoned after the first dot com bubble.
From that point on, his first business was bombarded with 'holy spam' - lot of very compromising materials were distributed among his business customers as he was the author of such odd deliveries. Religious activists started a defamatory campaign through word of mouth and social circles, particularly active in small / rural communities. He failed, closed down everything, gave away his first successful business for almost nothing... So, I do not support the idea of a 'right to be forgotten', but I would be careful in managing personal data related to s offenders, because we all know that defamation in the online world is an awful crime, that is often perpetrated in a very fast way, using repellant stigmatising arguments and without almost any trace.
How extraordinary would be if financial privacy issues had the same level of attention of s offenders register!
Brunella Longo
Information Management Adviser
http://www.brunellalongo.co.uk
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