Right to be forgotten
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Google Fined by France Over Right to be Forgotten
Google have been handed a fine by the French data protection authorities as a result of them failing to conform to the ‘right to be forgotten’ as ordered. In a decision made last year by the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL), Google would have to agree to…
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Google Expands Right to be Forgotten to All Domains
Ever since it’s introduction, the EU’s right to be forgotten has been controversial and misguided to say the least. Under the law, Google and other search providers are forced to delist links to new stories that are no longer considered relevant or in the public interest. As if censoring information in…
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The Internet Could Become as Regulated as TV
“It’s not the level playing field that we once thought it would be,” Jennifer Granick lamented. She was talking about the internet, and how it is slowly shifting away from being the bastion of free speech, invention, and information, at the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas. She…
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BBC Disrespects EU’s Right to Be Forgotten – Publishes List of Pages Removed
The BBC, in flagrant disregard of the European Union’s ‘right to be forgotten’ law, has published a list of its own webpages that have been removed from search engine listings via the ruling, promising to update the list frequently. The EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ legislation is designed to protect…
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Inventor of the World Wide Web Thinks ‘Right to be Forgotten’ is “Dangerous”
Europe’s new ‘right to be forgotten’ law is designed to protect people’s privacy, allowing them, through a court ruling, to have information about them excised from the internet. Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the worldwide web, however, believes that ‘right to be forgotten’ is a bad thing, one that erodes free…
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EU Pushes for “Right to Be Forgotten” Online to be Applied Wordwide
The European Union is wants internet search engines, like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft’s Bing, to commit to a global scrub of search results when a person invokes their “right to be forgotten”. At present, if an EU court rules in favour of “right to be forgotten”, only search results from…
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Wikipedia Link Hidden from Google under New “Right to Be Forgotten” Law
Under the new controversial “right to be forgotten” law, Google has now removed a Wikipedia article from their search results. this is the first time that a link to Wikipedia has been hidden and the Wiki founder Jimmy Wales has expressed his opposition to it. Jimmy wales said, “I would…
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