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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday November 17 2017, @10:23PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday November 17 2017, @10:23PM (#598423)

    Europeans have a few extra centuries of experience in learning the dangers of allowing dumb people to listen to dangerous speech.
    Don't worry, we're catching up ...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @11:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @11:50PM (#599064)

    the dangers of allowing

    How are those chains resting upon you? Do they make a nice jingling sound for your owners when you shake them?

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 20 2017, @05:44AM

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 20 2017, @05:44AM (#599160)

      Dang! I need new ironometer, dear AC.