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Really? I'm pretty sure major media outlets will pretty soon run out of opportunities to name and shame a select few individuals... assuming this article itself
by mtrimpe 12y ago
Really? I'm pretty sure major media outlets will pretty soon run out of opportunities to name and shame a select few individuals... assuming this article itself will not also be stricken from Google search results of course.
Additionally; it seems EU courts are often making sensible and nuanced decisions which in many cases dramatically improve the quality of life of those unfairly affected.
It does comes at some expense to enormous and massively profitable companies, but that's typically the kind of tradeoff the EU is better at making (depending on your definition of better of course.)
- JohnTHaller 12y agoThere's no real noticeable expense to this to these companies. The only real expense is to the people who will be unable to find specific information online in a format they expect. Thankfully, lots of other folks are reposting all the removed information to make it even more visible than it was before. Ironically, most of the 'unfairly affected' looking to have their previous misdeeds and criminal behavior forgotten will only be drawing international attention to it.
- bitserf 12y agoThe problem is that this doesn't scale. Sure, people are sharing the information now, because it's part of a current story, but 2 years from now? And the party affected isn't an organisation with the reach of the Times?
- mtrimpe 12y agoThe audience that is looking at these 'deleted Google listings' probably has very little overlap with the influential decision-makers in these peoples lives who Google his/her name before making said decision though.