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Force would be misleading, it's more like "enable"
by msane 10y ago
Force would be misleading, it's more like "enable"
- wyager 10y agoGoogle already has the capability to remove results, so they do not need to be "enabled" by EU law. I'm not really sure how you imagine this works, but the "right to be forgotten" refers to various legal frameworks in the EU for forcing companies to delete data that pertains to an individual.
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- dzhiurgis 10y agoGoogle seems to be happily applying DMCA to the whole world.
- wyager 10y agoI don't think they're happy about it. They've funded a lot of anti-DMCA stuff under "chilling effect" branding. The DMCA is a horrible law, so I don't think we should use it to justify similar takedown behavior under other laws.
- zigzigzag 10y agoIt doesn't actually. There are no laws that create or define the right to be forgotten. It was a "right" created out of nothing by a new court interpretation of a very vaguely worded part of the ECHR. Before the court invented this right nobody was even talking about it.