This is wrong. This isn’t a privacy issue at all. I fully support the right of all of us to keep certain things about ourselves private. But once information has been made public, once it has been legitimately reported on, logged, photographed and published as part of the flow of news and debate, then it becomes a matter of public record. It becomes a part of history, as much the property of the people as of the individual who did or said or suffered the thing in question. To scrub such material from public view is not to defend privacy – it’s to refashion the past itself, to allow self-interested individuals or lobby groups even to reshape memory.