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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: 3, Insightful) by dry on Saturday November 18 2017, @06:41AM

    by dry (223) on Saturday November 18 2017, @06:41AM (#598590) Journal

    The problem is people do stupid things.

    And often learn not to do those stupid things again.
    Are you really arguing that if someone makes a mistake, usually when young and stupid, it should be held over their heads for the rest of their lives?
    How is it infringing on your liberty if you don't know I did something stupid 40 years ago and learned from it?

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