On Its Own, Europe Backs Web Privacy Fights

The New York Times (Aug 9 2011)

1. Spain is the latest country to champion a cause for Internet privacy by ordering Google to stop indexing certain information about its citizens. All 90 people wanted information deleted from the Web. Enlarge This Image Marta Ramoneda for The New York Times Fernando Pérez, publisher of a Spanish government publication, said that "maybe there is information that has a life cycle." Among them was a victim of domestic violence who discovered that her address could easily be found through Google. Another, well into middle age now, thought it was unfair that a few computer key strokes could unearth an account of her arrest in her college days. They might not have received much of a hearing in the United States, where Google is based. But here, as elsewhere in Europe, an idea has taken hold —individuals should have a “right to be forgotten” on the Web. Spain’s government is ... (Read Full Article)

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