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The BBC intends to list BBC links which were taken off Google because of the EU decision on the "right to be forgotten".
Since a European Court of Justice ruling last year, individuals have the right to request that search engines remove certain web pages from their search results. Those pages usually contain personal information about individuals.
Following the ruling, Google removed a large number of links from its search results, including some to BBC web pages, and continues to delist pages from BBC Online.
The BBC has decided to make clear to licence fee payers which pages have been removed from Google's search results by publishing this list of links.
Further information can be found on this BBC story
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by tibman on Monday June 29 2015, @04:37AM
"Right to be forgotten" is a band-aid to a social problem. The problem is most people project an outward appearance of perfection (as much as possible). If you've been alive long enough you realize that is all bullshit and everyone has problems. I don't know how many times i've heard condemnation from one party to later find out they did the exact same thing!
I also don't think you can draw any line between criminal and non-criminal either. Some social problems are worse than criminal ones. Not everything that is legal is moral and not everything that is illegal is immoral.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @02:27PM
> The problem is most people project an outward appearance of perfection (as much as possible).
It isn't about projecting perfection, it is about not being judged for one event that does not define you. That isn't a problem, that's the way people are made - perfect memories mean no slack and without slack the world seizes up because there is no room for experimentation, improvement or learning from mistakes. All things that are necessary for a healthy, creative and dynamic society.
The right to be forgotten is not a band-aid on a social problem, it is a correction to a problem created by technology.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday June 29 2015, @03:13PM
Technology didn't make people do embarrassing things. It just made the problem worse. The problem is social, not technological. There is nothing wrong with experimenting, exploring, or making mistakes. The problem is defining someone for something they did years ago.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @03:42PM
> The problem is defining someone for something they did years ago.
Yes. And technology is an enabler for that problem. The idea that you can stop people from being judgey is utopianism. Drawing conclusions based on incomplete information is at the core of being human - we are pattern matching and inference machines.