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it seems, given the existence of a market for commercially archiving/indexing ala lexisnexis, this means that europeans will have the right to be forgotten by t
by simbolit 12y ago
it seems, given the existence of a market for commercially archiving/indexing ala lexisnexis, this means that europeans will have the right to be forgotten by their neighbours (using google), but not by their neighbour's lawyers (using lexis/etc). they might be subject to the same rules, but most of the time people don't know these services and so are not going to request it. weird ruling.
p.s.: also read James Ball @ the guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/right-to-be-forgotten-ruling-quagmire-google http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/right-t...
- tzs 12y agoThat's kind of how it worked before everything was readily available online. There was all kinds of information about you available in the public record, but if your neighbors wanted it they had to go to the offices of whatever government agency held the information and get it from an actual physical record on paper or microfiche. The meant you had reasonable privacy from curious and nosy neighbors and coworkers, but if someone actually had an important enough reason to need your information to justify the legwork or the expense to hire someone else to do the legwork they could get it.