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Google Accidentally Reveals Data On 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests
Colin Castro points out an article from The Guardian, who noticed that Google's recent transparency report contained more data than intended. When perusing the source code, they found data about who was making requests for Google to take down links under the "right to be forgotten" law. The data they found covers 75% of all requests made so far.
Less than 5% of nearly 220,000 individual requests made to Google to selectively remove links to online information concern criminals, politicians and high-profile public figures, the Guardian has learned, with more than 95% of requests coming from everyday members of the public. ... Of 218,320 requests to remove links between 29 May 2014 and 23 March 2015, 101,461 (46%) have been successfully delisted on individual name searches. Of these, 99,569 involve "private or personal information."
Only 1,892 requests – less than 1% of the overall total – were successful for the four remaining issue types identified within Google’s source code: "serious crime" (728 requests), "public figure" (454), "political" (534) or "child protection" (176) – presumably because they concern victims, incidental witnesses, spent convictions, or the private lives of public persons.
Have gnu, will travel.
Sorry I accidentally pointed the spotlight at all those pests who were asking me to help them hide.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
There's that love of pernicious gossip and armchair vigilantism again. Nothing as much fun for the average cit as to try and hurt someone at no risk to themselves. Most are just as bad as the people they so enjoy ostracizing. A significant proportion are worse.
What they should call it is , "little people have no right to know who they are dealing with". Lets face it anyone with the resources can find out all they want about the people they have dealings with. All this does is deny the ability to people who don't have the resources to do the digging.
the right-to-be-forgotten law is the most moronic useless feel good band aid i have seen in a long time
it does nothing effective
if you're looking to make a hiring decision or a dating decision, search on the person using a proxy from another country. 30 seconds extra effort and well within the technical abilities of even the barely computer literate
heck, some euro should write an app for the purpose: "find out what the loser is hiding from you! search their history from another country!"
besides, most of which should be "forgotten" shouldn't be forgotten at all: your douchebag financial or criminal history for example
if you think kids shouldn't be judged for stupid kid stuff: any potential dating partner or workplace that would judge you on stupid teenage crap is no person you want to date/ place you want to work anyways
and most importantly: if you don't want it to be public, don't make it fucking public in the first place. if someone reveals a secret about you they should not have, sue that asshole. don't think you can reverse time and erase public information
maybe there once was a time this info would be harder to find (microfiche in the library basement in the 1980s)
well, sorry: technology changes society, culture, and the law. inevitably and irrevocably. you can't go back in time. the printing press destroyed the aristocracy and replaced it with democracy by making the middle class educated and informed. do the aristocracy have a right to freeze time and not lose to the march of history?
likewise, "right-to-be-forgotten" is a useless feel good band aid that has no real effect just because some old european assholes think it's great to fight the inevitability of technological change. their children will roll their eyes a their clueless feeble elders and reverse this stupid law
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
They could change their motto to "Google remembers" but I think Pepperidge Farm already has that one taken.
Why is he fighting that, the dude got 5 women to sleep with him at once, what is wrong there?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Actually he got 5 women to spank him while wearing Nazi attire. Godwin'd that one now too, dammit.
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Google does seem to have the knack for finding the perfect solutions to legislative stupidity. I hope they open source.
That's one way to spin it. The other is given that "politicians and high-profile public figures" are a very small minority of the population. 1%? 0.1%? they are massively overusing it relative the the general population.
And they are supposed to be some of the smartest people around.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
... never forgets.
Good Luck!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
that's what "data wants to be free like beer" is all about.
used to be it took old spies and retired cops with shelves full of criss-cross phone books to do skip tracing. find the lost siblings from adoption situations.do background checks before hiring people claiming to be old spies and retired cops. that's the Internet's job now.
don't break it.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I didn't know about his case, but from what I've read it, it seems to me that the newspaper really did invade his private life, and that's really bad. Many people are working hard to take off the "privilege" to have a private life, and that doesn't seem either desirable or good.
besides, most of which should be "forgotten" shouldn't be forgotten at all: your douchebag financial or criminal history for example
Wrong. 95% of the request are actually found to be perfectely normal member of the public. Less than 5% are about prison, and financial stuff.
And what do you do when a 3rd aprty publish information on you ? Well good luck with that. And outdated information ? And many country prefer rehabilitation versus revenge. that women for example which made a tweeter PR faux pas ? If it follows her forever then her life is ruined. She will be unemployable for the rest of her life.
Most people do not bother with the US google they use their own language google. And that is enough to be forgotten.
Some "euro" yeah nice spelling. You realize that such app would imemdiately be ilelgal and the person attacked in justice if it sell/offer this app made especialyl to skirt the law ?
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that's as far as i read
go ahead
"if i were an asshole, which i'm not but watch me act like one with a pathetic threat in the same sentence..." yeah, ok, i see what kind of shitbag i'm dealing with
you can't exactly maintain the moral high ground when you reveal you would happily defy what you purport to stand for
example:
"we should nuke ISIS to prove we are more civilized than them"
notice the problem? good, now notice you have the same problem asswipe
being that you are morally bankrupt, there's nothing to do except to tell you to fuck off. you have no merit and you're beneath contempt
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it