Digital Disappearance

 from Miller-McCune

Once upon a time, news stories were entombed in newspaper “morgues” and rarely saw the dusty light of day.

Now the news never dies. Millions of people can search the archives online — an amazing benefit unless, perhaps, you’re someone who was actually in the news.

In a recent survey of 110 news organizations, the Toronto Star found that increasingly, publishers are fielding regular requests from anxious and embarrassed readers to “unpublish” information, sometimes months or years after it first appeared online.