* Posts by hk625u

1 publicly visible post • joined 4 Mar 2016

Google gives ringing endorsement to US VPN providers with 'right to be forgotten' expansion

hk625u

unacceptable!

This solution will not be accepted by the EU. The EU ruling is about the privacy of the person who's name is being searched. EU citizens have this right of privacy and it doesn't matter if the person invading their privacy is in the EU or outside the EU. Google is still violating the EU citizen's right to privacy. I expect the EU will not accept this but will do nothing about this until at least next year when they can ramp up the fines to 5% of Google's WW revenue. Ultimately, Google will be required to remove the results completely.

By the way, it is widely understood that when someone in the US raises a copyright issue with Google related to US copyright law that Google removes the results WW even in countries where there is no copyright issue for the content. So Google clearly just picks which laws it wants to respect based not on any legal/moral principal but simply based on their own commercial interest. The only way to change this will be massive fines and/or sending Google execs to prison