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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: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @11:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @11:01PM (#598443)

    Considering that the definition of "sex offender" can refer to anything from someone who raped a 5 year old to an 18 year old who banged his/her 15 year old lover, I would say that's quite a meaningless term.

    Any clinical psychologist will tell you that sex offenders have a recidivism rate approaching 100%.

    Citation needed. I'm only finding numbers in studies ranging from 11%-30%. It depends on how it's measured (arrests, convictions, mere accusations, etc.). But nowhere near 100%, at any rate.

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