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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @02:38PM
Security through obscurity. Hurdles and bullshit in the way of your right to public records.
The new balance is much better.
Ignorance is strength.
The new balance is fuck EU and you. Flood the web with searchable public records, leak everything.