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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger says the ability to forget our past, both on and offline, is an essential part of what makes us human Share 63 inShare4 Email Kate Connolly in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 April 2013 12.50 BST Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: 'Digital memories will only remind us of the failures of our past.' Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian He describes himself as the "midwife" of the idea of the right to be forgotten. And for Viktor Mayer-Schönberger , it's not just about the legal, moral and technical arguments – but about what it is to be human. "The more I've worked on data protection over the past 20 years, the more I've realised that at the heart of this, what matters as much as the privacy aspect is the issue of human decision-making," said Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute. "Humans need to make decisions about the present and the future. The beauty of

New York hotelier and Lindsay Lohan friend Vikram Chatwal has been arrested on drug charges in Florida after he allegedly tried to board a plane with cocaine, marijuana, heroin and pills. The 41-year-old multimillionaire was arrested Tuesday at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport after airport security found the drugs hidden in his bag and in his crotch, according to a report   by TMZ . He was booked on one count of trafficking six grams of heroin and seven counts of drug possession, including: cocaine, pot, ketamine, muscle relaxants, Xanax, sedatives and the opioid buprenorphine. Mug shot: Hotel owner and Lindsay Lohan friend Vikram Chatwal is shown in a police mug shot after his arrest on drug charges in Florida Chatwal told authorities that he illegally bought the drugs and they were in his possession, according to the police report. Chatwal is the owner of the Dream Hotel in New York that has been one of Lohan's favorite hotels. Lohan and Chatwa

The teenage hiker who was still missing in a rugged canyon near Los Angeles was found safe and well today, just one day after her friend was rescued. Searchers looking for 18-year-old Kyndall Jack found her this morning near Holy Jim Falls in Cleveland National Forest after someone reported hearing a distressed voice ,   CBS Los Angeles   reported A helicopter hoisted her to safety and she was taken to a nearby hospital.   Her condition was not immediately reported. Officials say her family has been notified. 'They cried. They hugged us. They thanked us immensely,' Capt John Muir of the Orange County Fire Authority said. Her friend   Nicholas Cendoya, 19, from Costa Mesa, was discovered dehydrated and disoriented shortly before 8pm last night and was airlifted to hospital.   He was barefoot and wearing shorts.   He reportedly said today that he was forced to leave Kyndall behind after she twisted her ankle and could not keep up in the thick brush. The pair h

Recent calls for a severe reduction in pay for Iain Duncan Smith show that there is a lot of enthusiasm for online petitions. But evidence for their effectiveness doesn't necessarily support their widespread use Share 33 inShare1 Email Iain Duncan Smith, possibly contemplating a life on £53 a week. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images I'd like to say I support the sentiment behind the change.org petition demanding that Iain Duncan Smith back up his claims and live on £53 a week. I'm a scientist; of course I think that extraordinary claims should have extraordinary evidence to support them. However, it's important to consider alternative explanations too. Maybe Duncan Smith thinks £53 is worth considerably more than it actually is. Like much of the current government, his policies and views seem to be based in a bygone era, so maybe his economic knowledge is too? He may well think £53 is more than enough to dine at the Savoy several times a week, sampling the

Nomad doesn't want an e-reader but he would like to buy a tablet for long hours of reading, particularly PDF files. Which one would be best? Share 7 inShare2 Email Google's Nexus 10 tablet, made by Samsung. Photograph: PR Tablets are becoming popular as e-readers, for books, documents, PDFs etc. I'm wondering if there is an ideal screen resolution for long hours of reading text. Will the difference in ppi of the Google Nexus 10 and Apple iPad 4 produce a different reading experience? In particular, can the lower resolution Atom-based tablets with detachable keyboards such as the Lenovo ThinkPad 2 (with stylus!) compete with them for reading PDFs? I'd like to reproduce a paper-based reading experience, though I don't want an e-reader. I'm not an Apple fan, but I'm willing to buy an iPad if it offers the best reading experience. Nomad There is no "best" tablet for all kinds of reading in all kinds of situations, which can range from sitti

Released today on digital label Rice Games Yatagarasu is a gorgeous 2D fighting game in the style of Street Fighter and King of Fighters. But it's been developed by just three people as part of Japan's blossoming indie community Share 10 inShare2 Email Yatagarasu: a beautiful 2D fighting game, built by just three people Yatagarasu looks like the sort of super sharp 2D fighting game I used to love playing on the Saturn and Dreamcast. Imaginative characters, turbo-charged combos, an intricate fighting system, it pays homage to Third Strike era Street Fighter as well as SNK and Arc System Works titles like Blazblue and King of Fighters. But the difference here is that Yatagarasu wasn't produced by a large team of dedicated programmers and designers. It is the work of just three men: King of Fighters artist, Kotani Tomoyuki, coder Shiza, and fighting game player Umezono, a veteran of the Street Fighter: Third Strike circuit who handles balance and mechanics. Togethe

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is the latest in a long line of women to have caught flak from other women for having the temerity to pronounce on feminism. Photograph: Laurent Gillieron/EPA There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. The original quote came from Madeleine Albright in 2006, at a WNBA luncheon called Celebrating Inspiration, since then it has taken on a life of its own. Misquoted and misattributed, but never delivered with less than full feeling, it is the go-to putdown for any woman publically besieged by another woman; particularly, it seems, women vaguely on the conservative side, who get extra mileage, perhaps, from knowing how much Albright will be vexed by their use of it. ("There's a place in hell," said Sarah Palin, on the stump in 2008 and with characteristic ball-park accuracy, "reserved for women who don't support other women.") Albright's point was a valid one: female solidarity is not a quest