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But Google is just indexing published works. It would be like forcing the library to hide all results for George Orwell. Google isn't collecting data about you,
by CDSlice 7y ago
But Google is just indexing published works. It would be like forcing the library to hide all results for George Orwell. Google isn't collecting data about you, the publishers are. Google just lets other people easily find it.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThe "easily find it" part is the bigger problem facing us in modern times. Companies are collecting all these scraps of info into huge databases on people. The problem isn't an old newspaper article in a basement.
- bloak 7y agoJustify that "just"! To me there seems to be a huge practical difference between information about someone being online somewhere and that information being made available to anyone who types that person's name into a browser. It would be a lot easier if newspapers could stop printing names of people who are not public figures. In some countries newspapers already don't do that. No doubt it's highly titillating for people to read about how AB was brutally raped and how XY has been arrested as a suspect (XY being released without charge the next day may or may not be considered newsworthy), but surely the story would be just as titillating without the names? Then we wouldn't have to argue about how to stop Google from indexing those names.