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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by malms on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:00AM (#21069507)
how is that creating such a list not serve the opposite purpose of the law ??
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by jefftk on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:03AM (#21069525)
The idea is generally to keep things from showing up when you search for people by name, not to remove the information entirely.
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by malms on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:03AM (#21069893)
So the law is only for google ? That make 0 sense
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by jefftk on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:18AM (#21069993)
Someone could make a Right to be Forgotten request to the BBC for the news article, but they'd need to meet a higher standard. The listing is of ones where people have asked to have the result removed from Google.
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