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

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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @02:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @02:38PM (#598186)

    this has worked thru a balance of public records in obscure places

    Security through obscurity. Hurdles and bullshit in the way of your right to public records.

    The new balance is much better.

    Figuring out a new balance is not an 'Assault on Freedom'. It is part of the process for preserving freedom.

    Ignorance is strength.

    That understanding seems a better starting point for choosing a new balance.

    The new balance is fuck EU and you. Flood the web with searchable public records, leak everything.

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