[governance] The European Right To Be Forgotten Might Be A Pandora's Box

[parminder]

While the privacy intentions of the ruling court may be well meaning, to 
me this is another example of private policing. How can google be taking 
such decisions even if just of interpreting the principles enunciated in 
the judgement, principles which in any case are too broad. And these 
decisions impact freedom of expression, and often public accountability 
of public actors. They may even impact the construction of public history.

The Internet calls for a new understanding of many jurisprudential 
issues, and perhaps new jurisprudential processes (without giving 
interested commercial parties judicial rights). This first of all 
requires a great depth and extent of public interest, 
non-commercial-actors-funded, research and non-commercial-actors-funded 
civil society work. Both are woefully lacking today.  And these of 
course working to feed a global platform for Internet related 
jurisprudence and policy, that itself is not commercial funding based. 
All these three requirements do not obtain today.

parminder



On Friday 04 July 2014 08:14 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
> By Joséphine De Ruyck for Intellectual Property Watch
>
> Over the last few months, search engines around the world have been 
> keeping an active eye on the developments of the landmark case ruled 
> by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) requiring Google to consider 
> individuals’ requests to remove links that they say infringe on their 
> privacy.
>
> While this right to be forgotten is now recognised as a European 
> general principle by the ECJ, fears exist as to the larger worldwide 
> implications, especially for search engines as well as the public’s 
> right to access to information.
>
> [read on 
> <http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/07/04/the-european-right-to-be-forgotten-might-be-a-pandoras-box/?utm_source=IP-Watch+Subscribers&utm_campaign=851bcce52b-DAILY_SUMMARY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b78685696b-851bcce52b-352139001>]
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