[governance] Google's attack on European sovereignty (was Re: Google sets up 'right to be forgotten' form...)

[Norbert Bollow]

McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> How would you have engineered this differently?

By not including in the results for a person's name the explicit
information that explicit information that some search results were
suppressed.

By including information on the suppression instead in the results of a
search for the URI that is affected by the "right to be forgotten"
based demand.

> You can't blame Google for the Streisand Effect, it was around before
> they existed.

I'm only blaming Google for taking explicit steps aimed at
significantly increasing its likelihood.

Greetings,
Norbert

> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> > Kwasi Boakye-Akyeampong <kboakye at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27631001
> > [..]
> >> People keen to get data removed from Google's index must:
> >>
> >>    - Provide weblinks to the relevant material
> >>    - Name their home country
> >>    - Explain why the links should be removed
> >>    - Supply photo ID to help Google guard against fraudulent
> >>      applications
> >
> > It seems that Google hates the ruling enough that they've
> > intentionally set this up in such a way that it will create a
> > serious risk of a Streisand Effect when the feature is actually
> > used:
> >
> > http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001077.html
> >
> > I expect that it should be a major discussion topic at the EuroDIG
> > that now such decisions of a US based company, which flow out of
> > the US perspective on what the boundary line should be between
> > privacy rights and the rights of companies to disseminate
> > information, seem to have greater power over Europeans than what is
> > considered fundamental rights in Europe.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
> >
> >
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