That's the part I'm split on with regard to the right to be forgotten law. I support it in regards to allowing people who have served their time (post-probation

That's the part I'm split on with regard to the right to be forgotten law. I support it in regards to allowing people who have served their time (post-probation) to be forgotten/forgiven in regards to their crimes. And the way we use the Internet today makes that nearly impossible. I'm not sure if it's Google's job to erase or censor data other users create as that would set the precedent that anyone can ask for anything to be removed from the index. This is both bad on the basis that Google's reliability depends on indexing all it can (but respecting the robots.txt no indexing rules) and to harm that reliability for reason, even good ones, could mean that what the general public knows is being actively censored. Governments would love to make Google into the memory hole in that respect. And corporations already have that sort of functionality via DMCA which isn't any better. In a perfect world, Google wouldn't index criminal records because they wouldn't exist online (imo, unless it's a crime that is as serious as rape, murder, assault, or major larceny it shouldn't be in the public) and folks who have naughty pictures on their Facebook wouldn't be shamed by society (at worse they would just be embarrassed). But we don't live in that perfect world, so I hope we can come up with as close to perfect solutions to the problem. I think the first step is to make sure we have better privacy advocacy on government and corporate information. Google can help foster that front with their own lobby efforts if they have any. It wouldn't be against their best interests, imo, since Google has no real need to freely share user information other than metadata. But I'm sure they would oppose any strengthened privacy laws just to cover their bottom line.