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Google panel backs firm on EU limit to ‘right to be forgotten’

February 6, 2015 admin been-vandalized, common, developers, european-court, intuit, julia-fioretti, longer-relevant, moscone, moscone-center, remove-links, ruling-ordering, ruslan-belkin, she-announced, states, surprise

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A panel of experts appointed by Google to advise it on how to implement an EU ruling ordering it to remove links to some personal information from search results has backed the company's view that links be removed only from websites in Europe. Google set up its eight-member panel last year to draw up a report, published on Friday, on how to implement the surprise “right to be forgotten” ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in May

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Google sticks to EU only application of ‘right to be forgotten’

January 19, 2015 admin accounts-on-its, chief-legal, continent, european, france-david, internet, key-profit, longer-relevant, mobile-phone, search-results, the-start-up, towards-the-end

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google is only removing search results from European websites when individuals invoke their “right to be forgotten”, contrary to regulators' guidelines, but will review that approach soon, the company's chief legal officer said on Monday. The issue of how far the so-called right to be forgotten should extend has concentrated the minds of Europe's privacy regulators since the continent's top court ruled in May that individuals could have “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” information removed from search results.

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