EU court ruling on “right to be forgotten” opens Pandora's box

Ability to request deletions from search engine results has dire implications for right to information The European Union Court of Justice ruling on Google Inc. v. the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) in May has opened a Pandora's Box by forcing search engines to permanently delete links from their results if a member of the public so requests. The ruling obliged Google to delete a link to an article in the Spanish daily La Vanguardia from its results on the grounds of the need to (...)

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