[ NNSquad ] European court says Google must respect 'right to be forgotten'

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
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