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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: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 17 2017, @09:20PM (5 children)
That doesn't even make sense as a sentence but I'll address it as if it did just the same. You are wrong. If you are a voting-age adult and do something fucking stupid, you should have to live with it. Adults do not get do-overs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @11:11PM (4 children)
Of course, what a fucking authoritarian could say?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 17 2017, @11:52PM (3 children)
I think you need a dictionary.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Saturday November 18 2017, @06:49AM (2 children)
Sounds pretty authoritarian saying that an 18 year old who did something stupid should suffer for the rest of their life, 60 years on average.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 18 2017, @11:14AM (1 child)
Then you also need a dictionary. There is nothing remotely authoritarian about saying we as the government will not protect you from the consequences of your own actions. Authoritarian would be a government trying to tell the whole Internet not to keep speaking mean truths about someone.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Sunday November 19 2017, @03:43AM
You're parroting #1 to show that the noun applies to you. I'll quote,
your response to the idea that people can change and should have the freedom to change.
What the solution to this idea is, I don't know as ordering Google to change their search results isn't it, but the problem is real, everyone does stupid shit at some point, some are lucky and some aren't.