Ireland’s Minister for Justice — who implemented a broad amnesty for illegal migrants earlier in the year — has told parliament that sex offenders have a ‘right to be forgotten’ under EU law.
Tech giant Google will not have to apply Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law globally following a ruling by an E.U. court.
An article from the Wall Street Journal notes that advisers to the European Union’s top court have suggested that Google shouldn’t be forced to apply the E.U.’s “right to be forgotten” rules outside the E.U.
Google has lost a “right to be forgotten” case appeal in the United Kingdom, after they previously rejected a citizen’s request.
Google has received over 2.4 million requests from Europeans exercising their “right to be forgotten” from the Internet, according to a report.
Despite the fact that search engines such as Google keep user search data for long periods of time, the data retention does not improve search result quality, according to a report.
LONDON (AP) — Britain plans to strengthen the online “right to be forgotten” with a law making social media companies delete personal information on request.
Google has censored hundreds of thousands of links to comply with European “right to be forgotten” regulations. A new transparency report reveals that the search giant has complied with 348,508 of the 1,235,473 URLs that users have requested be removed from search results.
(Ferenstein Wire) – A European agency has taken the “Right to Be Forgotten” to the next level: Google may be forced to remove links to news reports on why the search giant had to remove the links in the first place. Europe has pioneered a new legal concept that permits individuals to force search engines to remove links to information about themselves that they find incriminating or embarrassing.
Twitter has recently removed the ability of a political watchdog group to archive the embarrassing and incriminating tweets of U.S. congressmen automatically. The Sunlight Foundation’s much-beloved “politwoops” website was famous for revealing the regrettable tweets that members of Congress tried to erase from the history books.
