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[ PRIVACY Forum ] European court says Google must respect 'right to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Tue May 13 12:11:43 2014
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 08:41:28 -0700
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European court says Google must respect 'right to be forgotten'
(Reuters): http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/13/us-eu-google-dataprotection-idUSBREA4C07120140513
"Internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive
personal information from search engine results, Europe's top court
ruled on Tuesday in a case pitting privacy campaigners against Google.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) upheld the complaint
of a Spanish man who objected to the fact that Google searches on his
name threw up links to a 1998 newspaper article about the repossession
of his home."
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I can't begin to express what a bogus, inane, and utterly impractical
decision this is. Beyond ludicrous. Luckily, it means very little
without domestic government ratifications, and hopefully that won't
happen. More info? - See: "The 'Right to Be Forgotten': A Threat We
Dare Not Forget" - http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000938.html.
(I'm a consultant to Google. My postings are speaking only for myself,
not for them.)
--Lauren--
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