Google and Right-to-Be-Forgotten Critics Distort Ruling 

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Google Inc. (GOOG) and other critics of a European Union court ruling that created a right to be forgotten on the Internet are exaggerating it to undermine a reform of data-protection rules, the EU’s justice chief said.

Search engines such as Google “complain loudly” about the ruling and such critics are using “distorted notions of the right to be forgotten to discredit” a planned reform of EU data-protection rules that includes the right, Martine Reicherts, the EU’s justice commissioner, said today in a speech in Lyon, France.

The world’s largest search provider was ordered by the EU Court of Justice in May to remove some links from search results if a person asked it to take down personal information that was irrelevant or out of date. Google must weigh requests which may be refused if a person has a role in public life.

The Mountain View, California-based company’s top lawyer said last month that although the company disagreed with the ruling, it was trying to comply quickly and responsibly. It got more than 91,000 requests by July 18.

 

Source: bloomberg

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