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

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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Re:oh boy here we go.

[AmiMoJo]

To be honest I don't find this story at all surprising. I mean, the intent of the rules is quite clear, the court's ruling was quite clear. The intention is to remove that information when searching for information about that person. If new information is added in the form of articles about it, they get added to the filter as well.

Um... Yeah. It's not really a story, it's just an on-going event that has been discussed to death here.