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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) by t-3 on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by t-3 (4907) on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:41PM (#598651)

    It's even worse if you get involved in the justice system after being acquitted out let go - they treat every Stewart as if it were a conviction, so it's guilty before and despite being proven innocent every time.

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  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:43PM

    by t-3 (4907) on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:43PM (#598652)

    Fucking autocorrect - * acquitted or let go * they treat every arrest *