How Google determined our right to be forgotten

Re:How Google determined our right to be forgotten by lrem on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @09:48AM (#9068739)

Interesting, while reading the article (right from the title) I had an expectation of a strong argument against how Google handles things. No such a thing came, other than the lack of transparency. Is that a sign that whatever Google is doing is actually working, or just a writing failure?

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Re:How Google determined our right to be forgotten by infinity0 on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @09:52AM (#9068775)

Lack of transparency is itself a problem, because it means when things fuck up in the future there's less ability to recover.

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Re:How Google determined our right to be forgotten by munificent on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @01:10PM (#9069980)

How could Google be transparent here?

The whole point of the legislation is to stop publicizing information. Google can't exactly publicly tell the world about everyone they've been told to stop publicly telling the world about, can they?

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Re:How Google determined our right to be forgotten by lrem on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @10:23AM (#9068937)

True, but Google has a long tradition of not revealing its internal processes. That's because whenever people thought they understand how it works, they tried to game it. That's why there are hundreds of spam comments that get through recaptcha on my blog each month (and I'm nowhere near a popular blogger). I imagine they don't want people trying to game this system.

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