The Data Protection Authority threatens our collective memory

The National Archives in Dora
«No history-oriented research, almost regardless of discipline, would be possible without the archives,» write the authors of the article. The photo is from the State Archives in Dora. PHOTO: KJELL A. OLSEN, TONE MØRKVED

«In a hundred years everything will be forgotten». The thought made Knut Hamsun «petrified». For the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, oblivion seems noble. It should worry us all.

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