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Google?s Eric Schmidt has held the line against extending European search de-listing requests to Google?s .com domain.

 

As it stands, successful requests made by private individuals under the ruling for information to be de-indexed by Google in a search associated with their name are only implemented by Google on European sub domains, such as Google.co.uk or Google.de, not on Google.com.

 

And that?s not about to change, according to comments made by Schmidt today ? presumably unless Google is compelled to expand de-indexing to .com by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the future.

 

It?s one of several problematic loopholes with Google?s implementation of the ECJ ruling, which was handed down in May. Problematic since it undermines the intended impact of the ruling by allowing for a simple workaround (i.e. searching on Google.com) to circumvent a de-listed search result on a private individual?s name.

 

The ECJ ruling judged Google and other search engines to be data controllers and therefore requires them to accept and process individual search de-listing requests where the information in question is deemed outdated, irrelevant or otherwise erroneous, weighing requests against any public interest considerations in the information remaining associated with a search for an individual?s name.

 

Schmidt was fielding questions about Google?s implementation of the ruling during a public meeting of Google?s so-called ?right to be forgotten? advisory council taking place in London today.

 

More....

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/16/google-advisory-council-london-meeting/

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i thought that the Right to be Forgotten was company wide, say all the Google search engines, not just a couple, but all of them. This just undermines the intentions of the warrant.

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i thought that the Right to be Forgotten was company wide, say all the Google search engines, not just a couple, but all of them. This just undermines the intentions of the warrant.

 

Of course, but this is UK law not US law.  UK has no control over the search results the people living in the US, do.

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Of course, but this is UK law not US law.  UK has no control over the search results the people living in the US, do.

 

Correction. EU law, not UK law.  And the only legal way Google will be able to do this and not be in defiance of the law, is to block google.com to the EU.

 

FWIW, I think it's a bloody stupid law and needs to be repealed quickly. It's being abused all over the place, as was predicted.  Google should only have to remove the links if the original source is removed as well.

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Correction. EU law, not UK law.  And the only legal way Google will be able to do this and not be in defiance of the law, is to block google.com to the EU.

 

FWIW, I think it's a bloody stupid law and needs to be repealed quickly. It's being abused all over the place, as was predicted.  Google should only have to remove the links if the original source is removed as well.

 

the problem is the abuse as you said correctly. and there are cases that the original source is long gone...

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I found it weird that EU didn't make similar fuss with wayback archives...

 

Maybe no-one's mentioned it to them? I'd be surprised if the average whingeing ###### on the internet even knew they existed.

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I personally believe Google are fully entitled to do this, although they might be on shaky legal ground. I think eventually they'll cave and determine whether it's hidden based on your IP, rather than which google domain you go to.

 

The BBC are "naming and shaming" those that are asking for pages to be removed by publishing a list of removed pages too - which I think is a good thing.

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