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

[McTim]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:11 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> 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.


You can't blame Google for implementing a legal decision.  If you want
to lay blame for this, the Court who ordered the implementation of
this nonsense is the place to begin.



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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