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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by megaman22 on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:25PM (#16776552)
That's almost exactly the opposite of what I'm arguing. I'd argue that previously, all of this information was on file, and accessible, and relatively well-known. Google delisting it is the weird, anomalous development.
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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by amelius on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:06PM (#16776905)
> all of this information was on file, and accessible, and relatively well-known

But there is a big difference between having information at your fingertips in a searchable database, and having to go to a library and do the searching manually.

Perhaps google could provide the information after the user solved 1000 captchas :)

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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by freeone3000 on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:26PM (#16777066)
So if my local newspaper digitized their archive, they'd suddenly be in violation of user's privacy?
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