EconTalk · Russ Roberts

Let Me Be Forgotten (with Lowry Pressly)

August 4, 2025·1 hr 21 min·5 clips

Lowry Presley reveals why thinking of privacy as controlling information is a flawed and dangerous idea from the 1970s.

Host Russ Roberts interviews Lowry Presley about his book 'The Right to Oblivion,' exploring privacy beyond information control. They discuss how quantification freezes human experience, the ethics of photography and surveillance, and the need for unaccountability and forgetting in personal development. The conversation delves into philosophical insights on ambiguity, memory, and technology's impact on human relationships.

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