Gone, but hardly forgotten

• Autores: Lene Bech Sillesen
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 53, Nº. 1, 2015
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that individuals have a right to request that personal information be removed from online search results. The so-called "right to be forgotten" mainly affects Google, the dominant search engine in Europe, whose job it is to evaluate the requests. While the rule has been sharply criticized, not least by Google, its reach is limited. For now, it only applies to Google Europe domains. Last summer, Google began notifying media outlets when links to their sites are removed, but not revealing who made request or why, which, ironically, has prompted new coverage of the policy that often includes links to the affected content.