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EU Court of Justice Paves Way For "Right To Be Forgotten" Online
Mark.JUK (1222360) writes "The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has today ruled that Google, Bing and others, acting as internet search engine operators, are responsible for the processing that they carry out of personal data which appears on web pages published by third parties. As a result any searches made on the basis of a person's name that returns links/descriptions for web pages containing information on the person in question can, upon request by the related individual, be removed. The decision supports calls for a so-called 'right to be forgotten' by Internet privacy advocates, which ironically the European Commission are already working to implement via new legislation. Google failed to argue that such a decision would be unfair because the information was already legally in the public domain."
Donald Sterling's going to love this.
I actually agree with this decision and if google removes all references to me I wouldn't mind in the least (they have very little anyway);
Are you serious? When I do a google search for "Anonymous Coward", it returns quite some hits.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.