>But Vittorio Pecoraro argued that his privacy had been violated. The article was easily available and searchable online, and he had not been convicted of a crime. Yet because of PrimaDaNoi, what he considered a humiliating family argument had become the first thing that many people knew about him and his pizza and seafood restaurant, he said.
>“I have a reputation, I have been here for 50 years, I am known all over,” Mr. Pecoraro said in an interview at the restaurant, Positano, where the 2008 fight had occurred.
This situation has apparently threatened this man's business and it's not clear to me that there is a case for public interest.
This journalist is literally a guy sitting in his apartment digging up stories on private citizens. I actually agree with the court ruling here and I'm glad that we have the right to be forgotten. I don't want to live in a society were the commercial interests of paparazzi can destroy entire existences of people even if the people in question have apparently moved on long ago.
I don't want to live in a society where people's careers or personal lifes are ruined because someone at gawker or buzzfeed gets paid by clicks.