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Google Case Set to Examine if EU Data Rules Extend Globally

posted by mrpg on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-are-the-world dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Google is going to Europe's top court in its legal fight against an order requiring it to extend "right to be forgotten" rules to its search engines globally.

The technology giant is set for a showdown at the European Union Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday with France's data privacy regulator over an order to remove search results worldwide upon request.

The dispute pits data privacy concerns against the public's right to know, while also raising thorny questions about how to enforce differing legal jurisdictions when it comes to the borderless internet.

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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:29AM (1 child)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:29AM (#734148)

    Today? The internet never forgets...

    or is it? It is common lore and might be true for some subject categories that the internet does not forget. Maybe for those, the law is aimed at. In general, however, the internet forgets fast. Try getting some old news article, software, or personal homepage, even only a few years old. Try clicking on wikipedia links. Archive.org is usually of no use covering a tiny fraction and being technically not on par with modern web pages. For wikipedia at least, every link should be explicitly archived to archive.org which it isn't.

    There is no structural solution in place. The current state is extremely fragile, just imagine youtube going down, taking so much with it... (o.k. most but not all of it would be "nothing of value being lost").

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:48AM

    by VLM (445) on Thursday September 13 2018, @11:48AM (#734162)

    Note that in public, as of recently, there is no easy way I'm aware of to find my usenet posts from the very late 80s to the 90s unless you already know where to look and what to look for, and even then its iffy. Also its been impossible to find my compuserve forum posts from the mid-early 80s. And all my BBS conversations in the 80s are long gone, at least in public.

    However, I'm sure that "Big Brother" has it all on magnetic tape somewhere and doesn't mind sharing with other governments and corporations.

    In that way its interesting to separate "my next door neighbor or some HR department girl can find it" versus "The NSA keeps access to the data"

    I'm sure, for example, the complete MySpace data store will exist in dark corrupt areas for some years past public access, if not forever.