Google's independent advisory council says Europe's Right to Be Forgotten ruling should be contained within the continent and that its reach shouldn't extend to .com domains.
The advisory council is composed of independent experts who were invited by Google and tasked with helping the search engine company strike the perfect balance of policy that respects consumer privacy and does the least harm to the public's ability to access information.
The independent council helps Google establish the criteria for what constitutes a legitimate request to be forgotten. The advisory body also confirms what Google already believed when it asserted that global .com domains shouldn't be affected by the Right to Be Forgotten ruling.
Google told the advisory council that 95 percent of searches in Europe are routed through local versions of the search engine, such as Google.eu. In light of that information the council, in a report, indicated that delisting information from Europe's local version of Google Search should be sufficient in complying with the ruling of a country's High Court on the matter.
Delisting outdated information at the request of European users, removing all instances of the data from all Google variants, would offer more assurance of absolute protection, but the council's majority conclusion is that there are "competing interests" that are bigger than the protection of an individual, the advisory council stated in its report:
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Google Advisory Council: Right To Be Forgotten Should Not Go Beyond Europe : BIZ TECH : Tech Times
The advisory council is composed of independent experts who were invited by Google and tasked with helping the search engine company strike the perfect balance of policy that respects consumer privacy and does the least harm to the public's ability to access information.
The independent council helps Google establish the criteria for what constitutes a legitimate request to be forgotten. The advisory body also confirms what Google already believed when it asserted that global .com domains shouldn't be affected by the Right to Be Forgotten ruling.
Google told the advisory council that 95 percent of searches in Europe are routed through local versions of the search engine, such as Google.eu. In light of that information the council, in a report, indicated that delisting information from Europe's local version of Google Search should be sufficient in complying with the ruling of a country's High Court on the matter.
Delisting outdated information at the request of European users, removing all instances of the data from all Google variants, would offer more assurance of absolute protection, but the council's majority conclusion is that there are "competing interests" that are bigger than the protection of an individual, the advisory council stated in its report:
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Google Advisory Council: Right To Be Forgotten Should Not Go Beyond Europe : BIZ TECH : Tech Times
