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Saturday, July 05, 2014

Implications of the Right to be Forgotten

In Businessweek: " .... Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google (GOOG) has received about 50,000 requests for Web pages to be removed from European search results. One of the requests it has granted relates to a story written by BBC economics editor Robert Peston. But Peston doesn’t want his article to be forgotten. ... " 

But although Google can apparently be made to forget, from Europe at least, the Internet may well remember what has been said.  How about anything derived from or commented on?  Who can redact and how?  Some amusing examples to understand the implications.  Or not.

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