A ruling on the right to be forgotten

According to foreign media reports, Google recently implemented the European Court of Justice recently made a "right to be forgotten" ruling, the ruling that, in relation to my name search, European citizens can request that Google remove the specific the link to. However, after Google began to implement the ruling, it was opposed by many media outlets for a while. And British news agencies report that Google is removing links to their articles, including negative articles about some powerful people.

Last Wednesday, Robert Preston, the BBC's economics news editor, said he received a notice from Google alleging that according to the European Court ruling he published in 2007 one Articles about Merrill Lynch former CEO Stan O'Neal will not appear in Google search results. In the meantime, the British "Guardian" also reported that six media articles published by the commentary have also been Google "pull black."

For Google, although the "forgotten rights" had been contested with the EU-related agencies before, but after the European Court of Justice ruled, Google can only choose to implement the contents of the court that the application of the ruling, including "Inaccurate, not Full, irrelevant or excessive information ". According to this standard, some celebrities may be in the protection of personal reputation and require Google to delete those who should not actually delete the information, which in fact violated to a certain extent the citizens "freedom of speech" or "freedom of the press."

BBC's Preston said he may become "victimized" of the break-in period given that Google is just beginning to implement the EU court ruling, although he disagrees with Google's article links. "Allegedly Google has received more than 50,000 applications for deletion in Europe after opening the service," Preston wrote in the article.

Deleting an article link may be a temporary phenomenon for the moment, but in the long run, this approach will undoubtedly weaken the reliability and trust of Google search results in users' minds, which obviously will affect Google's search business After all, Google has been building a fair, complete and convincing image from the very beginning. If there is a lack of transparency and fairness in the implementation of the "right to be forgotten," Google will surely make Google Painstakingly reduced the image.

Translator: Tang Ke

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