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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: 5, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday November 17 2017, @02:55PM (1 child)
It's actually an assault on globalism. As in, what gives Google the right to establish a worldwide standard that completely disregards what nations, states, and local regulations require? Localities may feel it is their prerogative to constrict businesses that offer goods or services to their local citizens.
The easiest answer may be that then the state has the responsibility to do the filtering or blocking. Yes, censorship. Although I'm never for it, one should realize that there are cultures in the world who don't have the same problem with it that most USAians do. And I'm equally for requiring that to be something locals stand up for - I will not impose my notion that they shouldn't have censorship upon them because until they feel the need it won't do any good anyway. We'll continue in our pattern and time will judge all.
However, the state also has the right to tell Google what it needs to do and comply with, without any help at all. Google still has an option - they can choose to go dark to the region affected.
In one sense, this is Uberism revisited.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @06:51PM
Each individual is capable of filtering what they down/upload. Nobody has any right to filter what other people want to down/upload. That is not anybody's prerogative. The state has the responsibility to provide what people need, not to tell people what they can see and hear. If the internet can tear down the borders, we should provide all assistance possible, not put up resistance. Borders are nothing but prison walls and deserve no respect of any kind.