The Right To Be Forgotten

[matthew.brough]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10832179/Google-gets-right-to-be-forgotten-requests-hours-after-EU-ruling.html

What do we think. Fair or censorship? Like these new DBS restrictions seems people with past history are going to find it more easy than ever to keep it all in the past.

What should have presidence? Right for others to know or your right to privacy?

[norman]

You put your applications in?

[Cubit]

But whats to stop another search engine linking the relevant info?

Once the info is out there...

 

Besides, won't google just link to it again?

[matthew.brough]

You put your applications in?

Not yet

But whats to stop another search engine linking the relevant info?

Once the info is out there...

Besides, won't google just link to it again?

There aren't that many out there so simultaneous requests wouldn't be time consuming. Also as I understand you can get the website hosting to pull the data down too under a article 17 request - the right of erasure

[datadiffusion]

I have more reason than many to not like google (my namesake was a naughty boy - and comes up far more prominently on google than the 'real' me)

but like other have said what would I gain 'banning' searches on my my name? They'd then just get even more of the bad guy!

[norman]

Yes buy surely they know you're not the same Jimmy Saville?

[datadiffusion]

You'd think that what with the death and everything but no, and I still get angry parents turning up to my saturday afternoon DJ sets

at the Winter Gardens...