Google ordered to remove links to ‘right to be forgotten’ removal stories
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has ordered Google to remove search result links to news stories about right to be forgotten link removals.
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Google defies French global ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
Google is set to defy a French data authority ruling on the global removal of right to be forgotten links.
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BBC shows folly of ‘right to be forgotten’
The insistence of European government censors that there exists a “right to be forgotten” has always been wrong-headed as a matter of principle. And, as a matter of practice, nothing demonstrates the idea’s insidiousness better than this blog post from the BBC headlined: “List of BBC web pages which have been removed from Google’s search results.”
Just read the first four items:
- Heiress killed in fit of jealousy.
- Judges decide over ball game case.
- Man jailed for raping woman as she slept at house in Livingston.
- Hacker cleared over abuse message.
All significant news stories of unquestionable public interest, none dating back further than June 2005 and the newest being only three years old, yet all stricken from Google search thanks to the wave of a censorious government’s pen. (Yes, Google may bear some responsibility for making bad calls, but the company is being asked to do the impossible.)
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This is how Google is dealing with ‘right to be forgotten’ requests
Google is employing a big team of lawyers, engineers and paralegals who have so far evaluated over half a million URLs that were requested to be delisted from search results by European citizens, the company said.
About six months after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave Europeans the right to compel search engines to remove search results in Europe for queries that include their names if the results are “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive,” Google’s team has reviewed about 170,000 requests to delist search results that covered over 580,000 links, Google’s Global Privacy Council, Peter Fleischer, said Wednesday.
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