A European Union top court ruling that may require technology companies to delete personal information on request pits Europeans’ rights to privacy against the freedom to publish.
Google Inc. (GOOG) risks being ordered to remove search results where citizens’ fundamental rights are harmed by personal information posted online and where there is no public interest in publishing it, the EU Court of Justice said today.
The result could “open the floodgates for tens of thousands of requests to have legal, publicly available information about Europeans taken out of a search index or links removed from websites,” said James Waterworth, the head of the Brussels office of the Computer & Communications Industry Association.
Read it all. Astute blog readers will remember this phrase “right to be forgotten” because it has resonances with Jeffrey Rosen’s NY Times Magazine: The Web Means the End of Forgetting in 2010.
(Bloomberg) Google Faces Demands as Court Backs Right to Be Forgotten
A European Union top court ruling that may require technology companies to delete personal information on request pits Europeans’ rights to privacy against the freedom to publish.
Google Inc. (GOOG) risks being ordered to remove search results where citizens’ fundamental rights are harmed by personal information posted online and where there is no public interest in publishing it, the EU Court of Justice said today.
The result could “open the floodgates for tens of thousands of requests to have legal, publicly available information about Europeans taken out of a search index or links removed from websites,” said James Waterworth, the head of the Brussels office of the Computer & Communications Industry Association.
Read it all. Astute blog readers will remember this phrase “right to be forgotten” because it has resonances with Jeffrey Rosen’s NY Times Magazine: The Web Means the End of Forgetting in 2010.