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The BBC reports:
A top EU court has ruled Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called "right to be forgotten".
The European Union Court of Justice said links to "irrelevant" and outdated data should be erased on request.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 13 2014, @10:34PM
Dear EU Judges:
There is more than one person named Paul Smith. When Paul Smith demands that google remove a Links to something by a search of his name, how are the the several million other Paul Smiths to be treated? And how would Google know which Paul Smith has a right to demand all links should be removed?
This burden is totally unworkable in real life. This should not be a burden upon search engines, it should be upon individual web sites hosting the offending information.
This was addressed once before: http://euobserver.com/news/120650 [euobserver.com] but apparently the court had the poor judgement to revisit it.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday May 14 2014, @01:08AM
It is workable because Google knows every single Paul smith, and what they had for breakfast.
I don't know what the error rate is in their database, but for most of the population who browses unprotected, it's probably really low.
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More importantly, it's a transcription of the European right to be forgotten.
Do you know what you call a felon after his release from prison in Europe? He's a person. Whether he was actually rehabilitated in prison or not, he's considered to be like everyone else (except by a judge/jury if he commits the same crime). Someone who wasn't caught before the statute of limitation expired is also a person.
They have the right to prevent people from dragging them in the mud for the rest of their lives.
Just because big companies can keep you life accessible to everyone doesn't mean that the legal system has to obey them.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday May 14 2014, @05:21PM
An excellent fiction you've concocted.
But none of it is true. Neither the Law or the People cease to remember what Joe Pedophile did upon his release from prison, or the fact that certain politicians were convicted of crimes when they subsequently stand for election. (An exception to this rule apparently applies in Italy).
People in the EU, (except a few delusional dreamers) do not forget, History books and newspapers are not systematically rewritten. And you can NOT run away from your past. It is counterproductive for society to set up the fiction that you can.
Look, its clearly obvious that even YOU don't believe what you've stated.
The big companies paid the fines. Billions upon billions, into the treasury of the EU.
Yet you drag them through the mud!!
Hypocrite.
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