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Google's general counsel has signalled the company intends to fight, hard, against broad interpretations of the European Union's right to be forgotten.
Kent Walker, the company's general counsel and senior veep, put his name to a strongly-worded post on Wednesday, US time. Titled "Defending access to lawful information at Europe's highest court", the post argued that forthcoming cases in the European Court of Justice "represent a serious assault on the public's right to access lawful information."
Walker wrote that French courts' request for a European Court of Justice ruling on personal data collection effectively seeks a regime under which "all mentions of criminality or political affiliation should automatically be purged from search results, without any consideration of public interest."
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday November 19 2017, @05:47PM (1 child)
They are hardly unfiltered. What would make anybody think China or Russia is any better on these matters or that business isn't the same everywhere? That would be ludicrous. The state/corp is the enemy of free open communications everywhere on the planet. There really is no single point of refuge. Storage and access need to be decentralized so that no one can take control.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @06:57PM
What, do you think that there is one massive mainframe computer that is controlled by US/China/Russia/Boogeymen, and that there is only one ISP or other access point to use to connect to said single mainframe?
There's nothing stopping you from setting up your own server with your own service, and the overwhelming vast majority of Internet users are free to connect to and use such services from you at any time.
So stop whining and get to work!