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‘Right to be forgotten’ goes predictably wrong

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Google says lots of Europeans are not telling the truth, the whole and or anything resembling the truth when they ask to have search results about themselves “forgotten.”

Who could have predicted such an outcome? I mean who besides anyone with a modicum of common sense.

From a story by our IDG New Service:

In a letter to European data regulators, Google listed some of the challenges it faces in complying with the ruling, which allows people to compel search engines like Google and Bing to remove links to pages that mention their name, if the references are “inadequate,” “irrelevant” or “excessive.”

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Network World Paul McNamara

Wikipedia link censorship shows Bonnie & Clyde might have had ‘right to be forgotten’

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The caretakers of Wikipedia this morning have given us an enlightening look at the type of individuals and organizations who are benefiting – or at least appear to be benefiting – from the misguided “right to be forgotten” campaign being imposed by European censors on Google and other search engines.

Among the beneficiaries: an Irish bank robber so notorious he’s been portrayed in a series of motion pictures; and an Italian criminal gang that’s also straight out of Central Casting.

Of the 328,000 links that Google has so far been coerced into removing, more than 50 were to Wikipedia, the organization reports.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Google unenthusiastically launches ‘right to be forgotten’ request form

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Today, Google unenthusiastically launched a service that allows European citizens to request the removal of links that include their name and which are deemed “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed.” Google’s Larry Page slates the ruling as harmful to internet start ups and favourable to “oppressive governments”.
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