The highest court in the EU last year ordered Google to allow individuals there to request that certain specific information not be reported in Google search engine results, citing their “right to be forgotten.” Since that court ruling, hundreds of thousands of EU residents have requested that Google eliminate certain information, and Google routinely has complied with many of those requests. However, France’s data protection authority earlier this year issued an order that appears to apply the right more broadly.
Apparently also under the "right to be forgotten" is that all of this has happened before. I have to imagine long-time staff at Yahoo! are laughing to themselves and remembering the daily fines they faced when they had strict policies forbidding the sale of Nazi memorabilia on yahoo.fr but not on yahoo.com. Of course that was resolved by Yahoo! banning the sale of all "hate merchandise" on their website. I think it will be interesting to see how this one is resolved.
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Taken to Extremes, 'Right to Be Forgotten' Is Like Burning Virtual Books
Posted by: Peter S. Vogel August 31, 2015 01:10 PMThe highest court in the EU last year ordered Google to allow individuals there to request that certain specific information not be reported in Google search engine results, citing their “right to be forgotten.” Since that court ruling, hundreds of thousands of EU residents have requested that Google eliminate certain information, and Google routinely has complied with many of those requests. However, France’s data protection authority earlier this year issued an order that appears to apply the right more broadly.