Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law (engadget.com)

An anonymous reader writes: According to a Google report the company has evaluated 1,234,092 URLs from 348,085 requests since the EU's May 2014 "right to be forgotten" ruling, and has removed 42% of those URLs. Engadget reports: "To show how it comes to its decisions, the company shared some of the requests it received and its decisions. For example: a private citizen that was convicted of a serious crime, but had that conviction overturned during appeal, had search results about the crime removed. Meanwhile a high ranking public official in Hungary failed to get the results squelched of a decades-old criminal conviction. Of course, that doesn't mean the system is perfect and the company has already been accused of making mistakes."

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Lord of the Rings

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One of the Tolkien's core beliefs, and a central pillar of his LotRs trilogy, is he abhorrence of tyranny. But one thing he maintained, and showed off a little with the struggle of the good guys from harassing the power of the Ring, is that Tyranny is always bad, but it is worse if the all powerful ruler actually cares about their subjects. A uncaring, self obsessed, ruler will at least give you enough lease to pursue your life as you see fit when it does not interferer with their ambitions. While a caring omnipotent ruler would control every aspect of their citizens lives out of love of them. Gandelf could of took up the ring at anytime and destroyed Sauron, but that use of power would of corrupted him. Leading him to ever greater and greater uses of power to protect the denizens of Middle Earth; Until unerringly, he enslaved their wills to protect them from themselves.