Tuesday, November 22, 2016

EU Court to ask search engines like Google to remove results for queries that include the person's name.

I can't even search for my own name.

What Google say in their FAQ:

The recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union has profound consequences for search engines in Europe. The court found that certain users have the right to ask search engines like Google to remove results for queries that include the person's name. To qualify, the results shown would need to be inadequate, irrelevant, no longer relevant, or excessive.

When I, and anyone else makes a Google search that contains a name the result list is now filtered so that information that could be related to a person does not appear. Seeing that Google is the most likely method that is going to be used when someone is looking for "dirt" on an individual this could be quite limiting.

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