Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 2, 2014 @06:52AM from the system-and-method-to-break-the-internet dept.

Albanach writes: In 2007, the BBC's economics editor, Robert Peston, penned an article on the massive losses at Merrill Lynch and the resulting resignation of their CEO Stan O'Neal. Today, the BBC has been notified that the 2007 article will no longer appear in some Google searches made within the European Union, apparently as a result of someone exercising their new-found "right to be forgotten." O'Neal was the only individual named in the 2007 article. While O'Neal has left Merrill Lynch, he has not left the world of business, and now holds a directorship at Alcoa, the world's third largest aluminum producer with $23 billion in revenues in 2013.

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Re:Before you laugh by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-02 08:07 · Score: 0, Troll

> Let's just get this out of the way now: If Hitler were alive today he'd be able to have Google remove all links to anything relating to himself as the Nazi leader.
No he would not. There is a public interest exception to the law. Information about being the head of a major political movement is unequivocally within the scope of the public interest exception.
If you can't even get the Godwin right, its time to re-examine your position on an issue.