'Right to Be Forgotten' Online Is Poised to Spread
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/technology/personaltech/right-to-be-forgotten-online-is-poised-to-spread.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
"France is asking for Google to do something here in the U.S.
that if the U.S. government asked for, it would be against the
First Amendment," said Jonathan L. Zittrain, who teaches digital
law at Harvard Law School. He pointed out that, if enacted, the
French regulator's order would prevent Americans using an
American search engine from seeing content that is legal in the
United States. "That is extremely worrisome to me." If other
countries that have established a right to be forgotten also
push for global adoption, Google says it might need to remove
links everywhere to satisfy regulators. "We believe that no one
country should have the authority to control what content
someone in a second country can access," Peter Fleischer,
Google's global privacy counsel, wrote in a blog post last week.
...
"That's nonsense," said Marc Rotenberg, the executive
director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center [EPIC], a
privacy advocacy group ... "A global implementation of the
fundamental right to privacy on the Internet would be a
spectacular achievement," said Mr. Rotenberg. "For users, it
would be a fantastic development."
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It is so, so sad to see EPIC become a mouthpiece for global censorship.
--Lauren--
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