In 2010 Google Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt, predicted that people will eventually be allowed to automatically change their names on reaching adulthood to escape their online past. This article attempts to follow up on such an extreme scenario in order to demonstrate the difference between erasing scattered digitized information about people's lives and changing personal names as a method of protecting one's reputation and identity. Such a suggested identity-erasure raises not only considerable legal and ethical considerations but also reveals an emerging stimulating debate on how the law can protect individuals from becoming their worst enemies, ”haunting” them in the form of automated digitized narratives.

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The landscape of opportunity is rapidly changing for audio-visual (AV) hearing assistive technology. While hearing assistive devices, such as hearing aids, have traditionally been developed for populations of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) communities, the ubiquitous use of in-ear technology and recent advances in edge computing are reformulating what drives research and development in this domain. With that comes new challenges to consider from the perspective of multiple different stakeholders. In this position paper, we elaborate on seven key socio-technical challenges that may impede the adoption of trustworthy multi-modal hearing assistive technologies. We also draw upon a recent survey being piloted in the UK to examine perceptions of trust for audio systems in the context of human rights. We strongly encourage the research community to consider trust as a factor in developing new AV assistive hearing technologies, as trust may ultimately drive adoption of this technology within broader society.