UK First: Right-to-Be-Forgotten Notice Issued against Google IncO'Donoghue, Cynthia
Of course, this presents something of a slippery slope for not only Google, but the ICO and other watchdog groups as well — while the “right to be forgotten” mandate was originally intended to clear the web’s cache of old and irrelevant stories, it’s quickly ...
Right to be forgotten requests allow EU residents to have Google remove unflattering search results about them — such as a news story about a minor crime — so long as the results are no longer in the public interest. Those results can still appear in other searches, but they won't appea...
Google received 18,304 requests from the UK to remove links under European “right to be forgotten” laws. Mark James, ESET security specialist, helps us navigate the “murky depths” of the Internet. A little background: back in 2012 the European Commission brought forth plans for a “right...
The "right to be forgotten" comes from a judgment in 2014 when Mario Costeja González sued Google to suppress search results about him that described his earlier financial troubles. The right has legal precedent in the UK, where journalists may not report "spent" prison convictions as news. ...
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...
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’...
While the battle lines are being drawn up over the right to be forgotten, it seems we may be making the best of an imperfect system.
Google is finding the right to be forgotten "difficult" and admits, "We are learning as we go." The "right to be forgotten" has been enshrined in law by the European Union, which means people can apply to have out-of-date information about them struck out of online search results. Any...
–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...