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Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom

posted by Fnord666 on Friday November 17 2017, @09:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-say-nothin' dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The Internet never forgets.

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."

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Gaaark on Friday November 17 2017, @11:55AM (4 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 17 2017, @11:55AM (#598141) Journal

    Oh look, a {} pretending it has free speech.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Friday November 17 2017, @02:48PM (3 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday November 17 2017, @02:48PM (#598192) Journal

    Oh look, a {} pretending it has free speech.

    I think you forgot to add elements to your tuple.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday November 17 2017, @04:31PM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 17 2017, @04:31PM (#598223) Journal

      Maybe it's not a tuple, but a set. Maybe it was the set of ancestor posts containing intelligence? Or some other set?

      The set of every set which does not contain itself as an element. That set would appear to qualify for inclusion in the set, thus making it a set which now includes itself, making it ineligible to appear within the set, which suddenly makes it eligible for delusion within the set , . . . etc turtles all the way down, stack does not overflow because we reset the stack pointer to re-write over the entire previous stack and into the heap, etc

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      • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 17 2017, @10:08PM (1 child)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 17 2017, @10:08PM (#598416) Journal

        So, you're saying recursion is its own reward then? :)

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        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 20 2017, @02:58PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 20 2017, @02:58PM (#599247) Journal

          Insanity is its own reward.

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