Bypasses to right to be forgotten should be removed - EU Regulators
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[quote]Google has kicked against it. Eric Schmidt was doing so in public only last month. But European regulators are now stipulating the so called ‘right to be forgotten‘ ruling should apply to search results displayed on Google.com, not just on European sub-domains such as Google.co.uk.
The reason the regulators want this expansion is to avoid an easy circumventing of the law, based on Google’s current implementation, which allows users to bypass the ruling by searching for private individuals’ names on Google.com. It’s then trivial to compare results on a sub-domain with results on Google.com for discrepancies.[/quote]
[URL="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/26/rtbf-dot-com/"]Sauce.[/URL]
While the EU was at least smart enough to specify that this should only apply to EU citizens, that still leaves gaping problems. Not the least of which include how technically unenforceable that is because of vpns and other things, but additionally how prone to abuse the whole thing is. I like thee [I]concept[/I] of right to be forgotten when used by victims of abuse/stalking, but I've yet to see any way to do this that doesn't needlessly censor shit that should not be censored. You need an incredible amount of finesse to handle something like this, and I just don't see how that's feasible.
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