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, Interesting) by dry on Saturday November 18 2017, @06:32AM (2 children)
Lots of countries seal records after some time passes. In my country it is actually illegal to discriminate against someone for a prior conviction unless it directly affects the job they're applying for. Getting caught pissing in a park, privately, does not mean being forced to live under a bridge for the rest of your life.
Of course the more infamous you are, the harder to be forgotten, but most minor infractions disappear into the noise, at least pre-internet.
Different countries have different ideas of what freedom is.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Arik on Saturday November 18 2017, @08:37AM (1 child)
That's great.
"Different countries have different ideas of what freedom is."
That's not. That's simply brain-rot. Different countries have different ideas of how much freedom should be allowed and why, but anyone that pretends to be confused about what the word means is a con artists or legitimately retarded.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by dry on Sunday November 19 2017, @01:19AM
The thing is that freedoms conflict. You're probably in a country that was founded on the principle that the freedom to own people out weighed the freedom to not be owned and your whole culture has been warped by that idea of freedom to the point that the rich and corporations freedoms out weigh personal freedoms such as the right to privacy.
Living in a society always means give and take with freedoms.