French court applies Right to be forgotten globally

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by ApK

Nope, it's pretty much awful whoever does it.
Perhaps the only difference between China doing it and Europe doing it is the difference between malice and incompetence.

Excuse me, did I accidentally imply that is what I think?

I apologize -- I *thought* I was commenting on what some people in Europe will think.

[fjtorres]

It's no longer just a french court.
Now it is the official EU position:

http://www.cnet.com/news/eu-wants-ri...lied-globally/

The European Union in May decided people could request that their names be excluded from search results in Europe, if the results were deemed outdated or irrelevant. So far, more than 170,000 requests have been made, asking to remove all manner of webpages, including news articles, from Google's search results.

Google, the largest search engine in Europe, applied the ruling only to local versions of the site -- like google.fr in France or google.de in Germany -- but not Google.com. The EU wants to change that.

The body representing the EU's 28 national privacy regulators said in a press conference Wednesday the ruling should be applied to all Internet domains, according to news reports.

"All the extensions are included, including the .com," said Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of France's privacy watchdog and the Article 29 Working Party, according to Bloomberg.

The Bloomberg report:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-1...-u-s-site.html

[ApK]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Excuse me, did I accidentally imply that is what I think?

No, I saw your winky.

[JSWolf]

And just who are the EU to tell a US company that is has to remove websites for it's US domain? The EU is getting out of hand and needs to be taken down some.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And just who are the EU to tell a US company that is has to remove websites for it's US domain? The EU is getting out of hand and needs to be taken down some.

Plenty of precedent for that and worse.

Ever hear of the 2001 GE merger with HONEYWELL?

http://content.time.com/time/busines...166732,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/bu...ll-merger.html

Two American companies that didn't compete with each other in a merger that easily cleared DOJ analysis was blocked by the Brusselcrats on legally dubious grounds to favor Rolls Royce and Airbus.

Washington, as usual, rolled over and played dead.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And just who are the EU to tell a US company that is has to remove websites for it's US domain? The EU is getting out of hand and needs to be taken down some.