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: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday November 17 2017, @12:35PM (2 children)
As it would be for Google to index and allow access to the electoral rolls.
Do you really like to make your address known to anyone who wants to dox or stalk you?
And the Europeans want a more limited access to information about a private person, even if it comes to a cost to some businesses.
Is it something that impacts on you or your rights, or any other's human being? Or otherwise, what fault do you find in their position?
Keeping info about another person at a low level of accessibility infringes on your or anyone else's right to free speech? How?
Hang on... you don't believe that a "corporate person" is human and, as such, protected by the human rights, do you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 17 2017, @04:23PM
Why is that information on the web? If true, it's doubly retarded, first for having the information out there without even a robot.txt to inform search engines that the result shouldn't be listed, and second for then, attempting to fix the problem by creating a silly mandate on search engines which forces them to censor their search results.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @06:39PM
Keeping info about another person at a low level of accessibility infringes on your or anyone else's right to free speech?
Any and all regulation of content on the internet, or any other communication device, by the state or any other monopoly, is an infringement on free speech, by definition. Nobody has the right to decide what another can post. Society/culture is too authoritarian. The only way to defeat censorship is through a technical means that will leave the tyrants crying in their soup.