France tells Google to remove search results globally, or face big fines
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/france-confirms-that-google-must-remove-search-results-globally-or-face-big-fines/
Google's informal appeal against a French order to apply the
so-called "right to be forgotten" to all of its global Internet
services and domains, not just those in Europe, has been
rejected. The president of the Commission Nationale de
l'Informatique et des Libert?s (CNIL), France's data protection
authority, gave a number of reasons for the rejection, including
the fact that European orders to de-list information from search
results could be easily circumvented if links were still
available on Google's other domains.
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If Google complies with this order, they'll have set the stage for every
country around the world to demand the right to globally censor
literally anything that their governments find *inconvenient* in Google
search results. Not just EU and other Western countries, but Putin's
USSR^h^h^h^h Russia, China, and other repressive regimes. Politicians will
rush to sanitize their search results. Religious entities will want to
remove contradictory references. There will be no end to it. It will be
a stampede to a lowest common denominator of useless pablum. I've been
warning of this for years but now we're at the literal cusp of a global
information censorship disaster. *This must stop now.*
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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