So what are your thoughts on the Google / EU Decision? A top EU court has ruled Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called right to be forgotten. The European Union Court of Justice said links to irrelevant and outdated data should be erased on request. The case was brought by a Spanish man who complained that an auction notice of his repossessed home on Googles search results infringed his privacy. Google said the ruling was disappointing. We now need to take time to analyse the implications, a spokesperson added. Inadequate The search engine says it does not control data, it only offers links to information freely available on the internet. It has previously said forcing it to remove data amounts to censorship. The EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, welcomed the courts decision in a post on Facebook, saying it was a clear victory for the protection of personal data of Europeans. The ruling confirms the need to bring todays data protection rules from the digital stone age into todays modern computing world, she said. The European Commission proposed a law giving users the right to be forgotten in 2012. It would require search engines to edit some searches to make them compliant with the European directive on the protection of personal data. In its judgement on Tuesday, the court in Luxembourg said people had the right to request information be removed if it appeared to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant. (Source BBC)
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:53:52 +0000
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