Europe’s highest court recently decided that Google, Bing and others must allow people in Europe to ask that links to information about themselves be removed from search results.\u00a0 The idea was a good one — to enable individuals to protect their reputations — but Google has begun informing legitimate, prestigious news organizations that it will no longer provide search links to articles that people don’t want discovered.\u00a0 The news agencies will, of course, still have the articles in their archives, but you and I won’t be able to find them with Google.\u00a0 The rich and famous are already using this law to make it harder for researchers to find incriminating information.\u00a0 More than 50,000 requests have already been submitted to Google, and the debate over what should \u2014 and should not \u2014 be removed is likely to be contentious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Europe’s highest court recently decided that Google, Bing and others must allow people in Europe to ask that links to information about themselves be removed from search results.\u00a0 The idea was a good one — to enable individuals to protect … Continue reading