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Is EU right to expand 'right to be forgotten' to Google.com?

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Search Jazz

Looking at the EU web site for this (painful):-

"The judgment expressly states that the right only affects the results obtained from

searches made on the basis of a person’s name and does not require deletion of the

link from the indexes of the search engine altogether. That is, the original

information will always be accessible using other search terms, or by direct

access to the source."

So in your example a search for "That idiot that got his head stuck in the railings when he was 15" will return articles with your name, but searches on "DavCrav's brilliant nobel prize winning research" won't because it's got your name in it. Inadvertently making you look more like a tit and less like a genius.

Then we can have fun with partial names, will Josephine Stalin's quest for ignorance bar all searches for Joe Stalin? Or is "Stalin" considered a sufficiently generic term? What about LiLo? If she decides to be forgotten will we have to search for "inflatable beach toys" instead? Will she still be in the results?

We are left with a kind of "Search Jazz" where you search around the subject but not directly for it.

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