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First, it's not a precedent, Google filters search results to comply with the law in pretty much every jurisdiction, in Europe they are already filtering Maps t
by fleitz 12y ago
First, it's not a precedent, Google filters search results to comply with the law in pretty much every jurisdiction, in Europe they are already filtering Maps to comply with local individual privacy law.
In the US these are frequently DMCA requests, and in Europe frequently anti-hate requests. In Europe they simply have found a more expansive view of privacy than that of the US.
If there's a precedent here it's a pretty minor one.
- spinlock 12y agoThe case was about google displaying search results of data that others had posted online. It was not about taking down data that google was hosting (eg DMCA). This is a case of shooting the messenger and leaving the person sending the messages alone.
- genericuser 12y agoYour argument about this being a precedent goes counter to what the article itself says. I honestly have no idea whether you are correct in your judgement about whether this is a precedent but it seems like this is a complaint about the article more than the post you replied to. "According to The Guardian, the case will be used as a precedent in more than 200 cases pending in Spain's court system; in many of them, plaintiffs are asking for links to be deleted."