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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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to be forgotten</span><br>
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height="120" width="110">On May 13, the Court of
Justice of the European Union (EU) in Luxembourg
ruled that an individual can demand that Google
remove certain search results that appear when
someone Googles that individual's name. This
landmark ruling on the "right to be forgotten"
quickly became the topic of a flurry of media
stories. Many librarians may not be sure exactly
how they feel about this topic. On the one hand,
as the Index on Censorship <a
href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/index-blasts-eu-court-ruling-right-forgotten/">noted</a>,
withholding selected information may seem "...akin
to marching into a library and forcing it to pulp
books." But on the other hand, libraries are
carefully protective of their users' privacy. What
is the best balance between the right to know and
the right to privacy?
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27421969">US
v Europe - a cultural gap on the right to be
forgotten</a> (BBC News/Rory Cellan-Jones) "So
a battle between two views of freedom - the US
belief that free speech trumps everything, and
the European view that individuals should have
some control over what the world knows about
them. But there is something else in play here,
a growing unease about the power wielded by what
are nearly always US web giants over our lives.
Google, Facebook, Twitter and other firms that
store and use vast banks of data about Europeans
have all sought to deny responsibility for how
people use and share that information."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/right-to-be-forgotten-ruling-quagmire-google">'Right
to be forgotten' ruling creates a quagmire for
Google et al</a> (The Guardian/James Ball)
"Most major tech giants are based in the US -
which thanks to the first amendment, is very
unlikely to require companies to restrict search
results (ie what they can 'publish') due to
overseas privacy requirements. The results could
become exceedingly strange: will people
searching from the US be able to see the
'private' data of EU citizens, while natives of
those countries cannot? Or will companies with
no EU footprint be able to serve up results, but
those with sales offices in EU countries be
required to censor them?"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://searchengineland.com/eu-right-forgotten-191604">The
myths & realities of how of the EU's new
"right to be forgotten" in Google works</a>
(Search Engine Land/Danny Sullivan) "One
strategy would be for Google (or any search
engine) to decide not to decide. Any request it
receives, it could respond that unless the
request relates to some very specific
situations, it will be rejected because Google
doesn't believe it can fairly judge between the
right of privacy and the right of free speech.
Instead, Google could recommend that someone go
to a particular country's privacy agency for a
ruling and let that agency make the call."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-16/ungoogle-me-the-case-for-scrubbing-search-results">UnGoogle
me: The case for scrubbing search results</a>
(Business Week/Paul Ford) "Google has long been
willing to scrub the public record in order to
ease the distress of its users. It doesn't
advertise this widely. But its index has never
been total. Illegal material, copyright
violations, and the like have been kept out.
Google is not an impartial arbiter of the Web.
It is a mediated, incomplete index, influenced
by plenty of outside factors and long-term
commercial goals."</li>
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facts:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">In 2010, a
Spanish man filed a complaint with the Spanish
Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de
Protección de Datos, AEPD) against Google and a
newspaper that had published an item about his
financial situation in 1998. The AEPD rejected the
complaint against the newspaper, but asked Google
to remove the item from their search results.
Google appealed to the Spanish National High
Court, and that court referred the question to the
EU Court of Justice in 2012.
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