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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   
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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• Re:divided Re:divided (Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:16PM (1 child)

  by zocalo (302) on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:16PM (#734178)

  Much more likely my legal name is John Smith in 2030 along with maybe 50 million other people

  I'd go with "Spartacus", or maybe "Brian" (along with my wife), but the outcome is still likely to be that you are going to be crucified accurately tracked anyway. How many John Smiths connect from $IP_range (or $VPN_service)? How many of those John Smiths in $IP_range use $web_browser? How many of those $web_browser using John Smiths in $IP_range use $OS? And, of those, how many have browsers with $plugin_x, $plugin_y, and $plugin_z installed? And on, and on, until you are uniquely identified with a few redundant failsafes to account for occassional changes in software/location/etc. Note also that none of that changes if you try and protect your privacy just by using browser "Privacy" modes, or flushing your browser cache and cookies at the end of every session.
  
  Names are hardly ever unique, but even with privacy tools installed your web browser's digital fingerprint almost certainly is getting pretty close to it, so rather than all the practical complications arising from changing your name, you'd probably do better to maximise the randomness in the tools that you use to access the Internet.

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• Re:divided (Score: 1, Redundant) by VLM on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:36PM

  by VLM (445) on Thursday September 13 2018, @04:36PM (#734315)

  but the outcome is still likely to be that you are going to be crucified accurately tracked anyway

  Its more for casual stuff.

  Say for the sake of argument that in 2030 you tweet that there' not 25 accepted genders but actually 35.

  Then in the 2030s that becomes a hate crime and you can't be hired because by 2040 there's 75 accepted genders and only a nazi would claim there's only 35 and here's your tweet now punch-a-nazi starts.

  Simply changing your legal name and rebooting your digital life will fix that. You can go on twitter in 2040 and post there's not 75 genders but actually 88 and get all the good boy upvotes, rejoin "civil" society, etc.

  Yes, Google and the NSA know darn well that you're the same person, but clickbait news journalist stories about "Do nazis live among us? We found a cache of old tweets and you'll never believe what a hateful nazi neighbor of yours tweeted back in 2030. Click here for 42636 banner ads and a breathless clickbait about your neighbors!"

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