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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: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:14PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday September 13 2018, @07:14PM (#734400)

    This whole thing can be solved with a simple application of the "my right to swing my fists ends at your face" principle.

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    If I want people to forget about something on my website, for example, I can take the thing off my website.

    If I want people to forget something that 8 different newspapers said about a thing on my website, I can petition the newspapers to take down the articles about it. Maybe if I am polite about it they will agree to do it; maybe not.

    But when I claim that I should be able to make Google remove listings to all references to the thing for $large_geographic_area, I am interfering with everyone else's right to find freely available information online. (Obviously there are a lot of media assholes who don't see what the problem with this idea is either.)

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    The difference is allowing people to forget, vs forcing people to forget. Thinking that we can force people to do anything always implies a certain amount of presumptuousness. Maybe we are capable of doing so, but should we? I would argue, no.

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    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
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