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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story concerning Google's enforcement of search privacy laws across international borders:
What if links to stories about someone's past—stories about defrauding an international business or about medical tourism malpractice—were removed from Google search in your country, not because of your local laws but because someone was able to use the laws of another country. How would you feel about that?
That question may seem simplistic. But it goes to the heart of a very important debate that is taking place now in Europe, initially between some Data Protection Authorities and, next year, in court. At stake: whether Europe's right to be forgotten—which allows people in EU countries to request removal of certain links from name search results—should reach beyond the borders of Europe and into countries which have different laws.
Google believes it should not. That's why, for much of the last year, we've been defending the idea that each country should be able to balance freedom of expression and privacy in the way that it chooses, not in the way that another country chooses.
Can the requirements of different countries be balanced at all?
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday December 13 2016, @04:06AM
It's more than human nature. It's population pressure. When people are scarce and valuable, all kinds of crap is forgiven. What matters is whether they can do the job. When people are plentiful, when there are dozens of qualified applicants for one position, then ever more trivial things matter.
I have read that in the 1950s and into the 1960s, a person who earned a PhD had it made. Universities would come to the new doctor with job offers that included good pay, a light teaching schedule, and perks such as a nice big lab. In the 1970s, that began changing. Today, some professors have to supplement their poverty level income with food stamps. Schools have flooded the market with graduates of PhD programs. Schools win in two different ways on that. The oversupply drives down the pay they have to offer to attract professors, and they make a pile of money off the tuition all these doctors had to pay to get the PhD.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @07:35AM
> What matters is whether they can do the job.
Pretty much all of American history is proof of the opposite. If you are black that is.
That reductive libertarian fantasy version of the world just does not exist outside of laboratory conditions.