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Google Says Broader Right to Be Forgotten is 'Serious Assault' On Freedom

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:Corporation free speech again? Re:Corporation free speech again? (Score: 5, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 17 2017, @10:08PM (1 child)

  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 17 2017, @10:08PM (#598416) Journal

  So, you're saying recursion is its own reward then? :)

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• Re:Corporation free speech again? (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 20 2017, @02:58PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Monday November 20 2017, @02:58PM (#599247) Journal

  Insanity is its own reward.

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