Read MoreGoogle removes results under 'right to be forgotten' World Wide Web founderTim-Berners Lee branded the measure "draconian"last week underlining the opposition to it from Internet freedom advocates. France tops request leaderboard Following the ruling in May, Google introduced an online form ...
The last thing Google wanted when the EC proposed including a 'right to be forgotten' in data protection legislationback in 2012 Now, thanks to aruling by the European Court of Justice handed down in May, Google is having to contend with the introduction of just such a right. Th...
As the whole discussion over right to be forgotten removals have shown, we think of Google as a utility. It's our gatekeeper to the web — when it buries links, that content might as well disappear altogether. If the ECJ ruling is tantamount to censorship, so are Google's ow...
Although this ruling is made under current law, it anticipates the right to be forgotten and to erasure included in the modernisation of the EU's data protection rules under discussion at EU level. While the decision has been welcomed by some as a victory for privacy, others have condemned ...
Google is pushing back against a request to expand the scope of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law. Last year, the European Union Court of Justice ruled that citizens of its member states could ask Google to delist search results that were irrelevant, out of date, or fit a mix of...
A little background: back in 2012 the European Commission brought forth plans for a “right to be forgotten”. This allows people to request that data about them be deleted, unless the service provider has a legitimate reason not to.
–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...
for specific people, it also hurts the public's ability to get information. Of course, that's the entire controversy over the right to the forgotten. Google's response to this order may help establish just how strictly search engines have to adhere to the public's request to remove results...
France’s privacy regulator has rejected Google’s request that it just forget about a ruling extending the “right to be forgotten” to all Google’s websites, not just those with European domain names. The decision requires Google to close a loophole that enabled searchers to defeat a ...
Google has launched an online form allowing Europe-based Web users to request the removal of search engine results that link to sites containing information about them. The move comes followinga recent rulingby Europe’s highest court giving European citizens the “right to be forgotten” if searc...