Re:Full Text Search of US Court records
by Jolter on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:54AM
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I believe it applies to court records, too, as long as the request for deletion is directed at an Internet search engine. The actual court record is not possible to get rid of under the GDPR, you can only make it so your court record is not returned by Google, Bing etc when searching for your name.
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Someone outside Europe should make a search engine that only shows records that Euro politicians don’t want the public to see. The idea of the “right to be forgotten” is horrifying and straight out of 1984, thank god once again for the First Amendment.
I don’t know if I agree. As long as search engines are private for-profit enterprises and not a public service, I think this particular regulation is slightly more good than bad.
Tangentially, IMO any 1984 comparisons fall flat when the state is not involved in the censorship in question.
The state literally requires me to censor if you ask. I can’t speak freely what I know about you under pain of state punishment.
Are you an Internet search engine?
Jokes aside, the EU page about the GDPR right to be forgotten [1] states:
“ Here are the reasons cited in the GDPR that trump the right to erasure:
The data is being used to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information.[…]”