National Journal
Staff correspondent for the National Journal covering tech policy
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Dustin Volz
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FROM Dustin Volz
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Right to Be Forgotten A European court ruling that says people have a right to be forgotten. That might not necessarily sound like a good thing, but for those trying to put a piece of embarrassing personal history behind them, this is great news. Europe’s highest court has ruled that people can ask Google and other search engines to remove results that paint them in a bad light, even if they’re accurate.
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Mark Harris: Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War "The sixth character was alcohol," journalist Mark Harris says of "Five Came Back," about five directors who filmed from the WWII trenches.
The Business
Doc director Matthew Heineman on his first narrative film, 'A Private War' In his career as a documentary filmmaker, Matthew Heineman has criss-crossed the country, followed Syrian activists in exile and embedded with vigilantes fighting Mexican drug cartels. His newest film, ‘A Private War’ is an adventure of a different kind--a narrative feature about war correspondent Marie Colvin. He tells us about using techniques he learned doing documentaries to make his first narrative film.