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Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals

Posted by timothy on from the turtles-and-elephants-all-the-way-down dept.

Mark Wilson writes, drolly, that the so-called right to be forgotten "has proved somewhat controversial," and expands on that with a new twist in a post at Beta News: While some see the requirement for Google to remove search results that link to pages that contain information about people that is 'inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant' as a win for privacy, other see it as a form of censorship. To fight back, there have been a number of sites that have started to list the stories Google is forced to stop linking to. In the latest twist, Google has now been ordered to remove links to contemporary news reports about the stories that were previously removed from search results. All clear? Thought not... The Information Commissioner's Office has ordered Google to remove from search results links to nine stories about other search result links removed under the Right to Be Forgotten rules.

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  1. Re:Could have its uses by sconeu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who's willing to join me on a Right-to-be-forgotten campaign about the f***ing Kardashians?

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  2. Re:Search engines search. It's what they do. by CaptainDork · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That model lady in Spain covered that. Her likeness was used at porn sites as a lure. She never did porn.

    She demanded that Google allow searches of her that linked to professional or promotional content, but that Google block any listings that went to porn sites.

    Google told her to fuck off and go after the individual porn sites that were using her likeness without her permission.

    She said there were too many sites and she couldn't afford it.

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  3. Re: Search engines search. It's what they do. by Holi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is not about "incorrect or inaccurate" information. It is about the desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past."

    So no, it's not about having false information out there about you, that's already covered by other laws (libel, slander), it's about whitewashing your past misdeeds.

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