right to be forgotten
EU court orders Google to remove “manifestly inaccurate” information
The result of an ongoing legal battle.
Members
FB oversight board member says free speech “is not an absolute human right”
Supports limiting speech.
Tokyo court rules Twitter doesn’t need to delete information on citizens’ criminal history
A man wanted his arrest history scrubbed from Twitter.
Australia Supreme Court rules Google is a publisher, orders them to pay $40,000 in damages
The ruling was made as part of a pseudo “right to be forgotten” case.
Spanish court orders Google to editorialize search results, put man’s acquittal story in first place
The ruling is unprecedented.
Court says murderer can force publications to alter history and censor his crimes from the internet
The controversial “right to be forgotten” laws are covering up murders.
Andrew Yang has big plans for big tech
Andrew Yang has a mixed bag of proposals.
EU free speech vs right to be forgotten case to be heard next week
In this case, Richard Cumbley of law firm Linklaters told Reuters, it would “create a serious clash with US concepts of freedom of speech, and other states might also try and suppress search results on a global basis reducing Google’s search engine to a list of the anodyne and inoffensive.”