Euro Court: Google Must Censor Results to Protect Your Reputation
Tired of that unflattering post in your ex’s Tumblr messing up your Google results page? A court ruling in Europe may force the search giant and others to scrub results page of damaging information, even if the information is true, according to the Associated Press.
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that search engines must allow users some input into their search results. The ruling does not apply in the United States, forcing search companies to figure out how to provide different results pages in different parts of the world.
From the AP:
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The ruling is a departure from Google’s previous stance, asking upset users to contact the source of the information to alter or remove the offending pages. British online privacy rights group Big Brother Watch told the AP that the ruling could lead to censorship on the web.
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