Right To Be Forgotten
Right To Be Forgotten EU digital commissioner Vera Jourova says the directive is a legal instrument so it will be passed into law by the end of the year. “The directive is a civil law instrument,” she said. “The EU institutions have been working on this for a very, very long time. All these laws must be modernised.
The time for decrees is over.” There are also differences of opinion on who should enforce the new laws. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Google has come under increasing pressure to allow more cross-border searches Diritto all’oblio.
Her Opinion
In her opinion, the “nation state” should take the lead in the fight against corruption and money-laundering. The directive, she added, also stated that “national authorities should take the lead in handling requests for de-indexing”.
The European Commission, which represents the EU’s 28 member states, says it has no interest in taking this role, and prefers to rely on the new independent, public body established to deal with such matters.
Decided To Invest
We decide to invest in the independent court. Made the court completely independent,” said Vera Jourova. We Want this court to be based on trust and that means we cannot open the door to the court to third parties,” she added, saying she had to leave the decision to national governments.
In effect, the new court has no power to ask Google or any other tech company to delete specific pages and it can only take action if a national authority asks for it to do so.
Banned Person
To search for a ban person, citizens would have to convince the authorities that their identity has been wrongfully associat with a ban person. If you search for a person, but not their name, and the person’s name is taken, then your search will not be block but you will not be told about it.
The combination of finding a person, but not their name, searching for a name that is not available, and not being told if results are block, is causing confusion and anger among those who oppose the rule.
Anniversary Passes
Firstly, many pages are open for a year, and then are delete once the anniversary passes. It is not possible to find out what has happened to them. Secondly, Google will not know if a search requests has been made unless the authorities ask it to carry out the search.
Thirdly, and crucially, what is consider illegal, and what is not, has not been define in the law. Media playback is unsupport on your device Media caption The director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains what “right to be forgot” really means.
Introduction Of The Rules
The introduction of the rules has made some headlines. In the past six months, Google and Microsoft have voluntarily removed results for some of the most high-profile individuals.
The BBC understands that some newspapers who carried stories about people involved in the EU’s 2013 $1.7bn fine against Google have also agreed to make changes.
Super-Annoyance
I think it’s pretty much super-annoyance in the first year,” says Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a US non-profit digital rights group.
You would think that Google, or any reputable search engine, would be able to figure out how to manage something like this.”
Data Protection Laws
In many countries the data protection laws are currently a bit lax. The big online advertising companies, such as Google and Facebook, have very powerful tools to keep track of everything that happens to people when they visit their sites.
The GDPR wants to give citizens more choice over what they put online, but Ms Cohn said the approach of many governments was still one of “collect it all. I think they still think that the moment that you register to vote or the moment that you purchase something that you somehow enter the public domain and that’s it,” she added.
Requests For Comment
But we don’t think that’s the way it should work. We think you should still have some of the power to control what happens to your data. Requests for comment from Google and Facebook were not return by the time of publication.
Calls to the UK data regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, were also not return. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary is due to report on the implementation of the rules in September, but they could be in force as early as autumn 2018.
Policy Manager
Appleton, policy manager at Big Brother Watch, a privacy watchdog, said. The impact of these measures on legitimate political discourse, the media and business will be highly damaging. People shouldn’t have to jump through any extra hoops to exercise their right to express themselves and the risk of censorship without a robust oversight system is an absolute.
Responding to the criticisms, the EU Commission said it did not recognise the characterization of the new rules as a “censorship filter”.
Strengthen Citizens
And a means to “strengthen” citizens’ rights to receive information. To safeguard the freedom of opinion and the media, as well as to ensure effective legal protection for personal data, it will be possible for the national data protection authority to directly order the correction of inaccurate personal information.
The EU said in a statement. The EC is now scrutinising Google’s decision to remove search results, after a number of high-profile cases that have resulted in information on people being remove from search results. In one example, a Spanish man applied to have a street name he uses for job searching, La Pedrera, removed from Google’s search results.
Public Record
However, Google removed the block from the street name, but not the man’s home address. Google said in a statement that “La Pedrera is not a public record and the street name is rarely, if ever, used in any Google searches”. The company added: “Despite our best efforts, however, Google can only crawl and index a very small fraction of the content on the internet.”
It said it had removed the names of those whom it had deemed to have “not been consenting” when they put their names on the site. Google is also giving users the option to have their data removed from the search engine.
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