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Data Privacy

May 6, 2015

Eraser laws: forgetting a minor's past to save his future

California's Eraser Law raises questions for minors as well as mobile app operators. By Eric Ball


By Eric Ball


Hector recently graduated from UC Berkeley and is anxious about his upcoming job interview.
He is about to enter the adult world. But he has also got a bigger problem: When he
was 17, he was not as wise as he is now at the ripe ol' age of 22. Back then, he posted
unfortunate photos of himself drinking at high school parties and made comments on
the message boards of news websites that he...

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