Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forgotten at Google

Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by woolvalley on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:15PM (#16475517)

What you all described is the nice sounding part of RTBF.

You can then use the same mechanics of those laws to censor things you don't like, as an organization or a government.

It's the age old argument of spirit vs letter of the law.

The spirit might be privacy, the mechanical letter is actual censorship. It is why I don't think something like RTBF wouldn't stand up in the USA, since the law probably wouldn't survive a 1st amendment challenge.

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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by coldtea on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:07PM (#16476126)

I think we have way worse things to worry about our governments than censorship of Google results.

Whereas personal privacy is an actual, very real problem for people.

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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by woolvalley on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:13PM (#16476201)

You think it might apply 'only' to google, but a smart lawyer can make it apply anywhere.

Think of software patents or the DCMA. Sounds nice in theory, a terror in practice. Any tool exposed free to use for the public, including some very wealthy sociopaths, will be abused.

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