–Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’, which has been defined as “the right to silence on past events in life that are no longer occurring”, only applies in EU Member States, the EU’s top Court ruled on Tuesday. The French Data Protection Authority in March 2016 imposed a penalty of...
Google Responds to Right to be Forgotten DecisionIan WaldenBen D. Allgrove
The Registerhas asked whether anyone at Google would define "a few months" more precisely or whether the fuzzy time frame was a deliberate attempt to avoid providing a specific value that could be used to game the system. A company spokesperson confirmed it was the latter. However, Android pr...
The right to be forgotten has been considered an EU-specific issue. But now, as part of compliance with the upcoming GDPR, organizations worldwide are set to face the same challenges previously posed to only a few. However, arecent surveyby a big data application provider...
The move comes followinga recent rulingby Europe’s highest court giving European citizens the “right to be forgotten” if search results are deemed to be “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed.” ...
Google is going to widen the ‘right to be forgotten’ option to all of its domains accessed from within the EU. Google offers the ‘right to be forgotten’...
"right to be forgotten" decision is calling unwanted attention to the easy-to-forget fact that--one way or another---fallible human hands are always guiding google's seemingly perfect search machine. >the 'right to be forgotten' decision is calling unwanted attention to the easy-to-forget ...
Indeed, the right-to-be-forgotten may seem evocative to privacy campaigners, but as the UK's Information Commissioner's Office has previously stated, "there is no absolute right [under the ruling] to have information removed." Google, meanwhile, decided to play the long ga...
After starting to process the first 'right to be forgotten' requests in June, it set out in a letter to Europe's privacy watchdogs this week the difficulties it's faced, including the "significant hiring effort" it had to undertake to handle the requests. ...
The French privacy watchdog has rejected Google's claim that the right to be forgotten should only apply to search results on its European websites. By Peter Sayer Sep 21, 2015 7:00 am PDT France’s privacy regulator has rejected Google’s request that it just forget about a ruling ...