right to be forgotten
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Will My Data Be Online Forever?
We’ve all pretty much reconciled ourselves to the fact that a handful of unaccountable technology executives have, with our help, generated the largest repository of personal information ever assembled, housed in vast fortified complexes around the globe and sifted continually for the benefit of corporations, federal agencies, political campaigns, etc. Less clear is the lifespan…
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Google Fights Back As EU Weighs Expanding ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Worldwide
Google has been subject to the EU Court of Justice’s “right to be forgotten” law — a requirement that search engines delist requested pages from results — for years. The law enables anyone in the EU to pressure companies such as Google to take down search results they don’t like. But this week, Google is…
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France Says Google Must Honour The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Around The World
Europe’s “right to be forgotten” rules have been around for a while, but they pretty much just applied to Europeans who wanted to hide embarrassing or incorrect content about them. Now a French court says that Google needs to go a step further and apply the rules to all of its domains.
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How Google Decides If You Have The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
It’s a year since the EU ruled that people have the “right to be forgotten” online, in the process ordering Google to remove links when people ask it to. Here’s how they decide who deserves to have their requests granted.