France really wants Google to Censor "right to be forgotten" Search results worldwide

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France really wants Google to Censor "right to be forgotten" Search results worldwide -

Google is currently fighting Internet censorship France on the most important legal case this year - and it involves the controversial right to be forgotten. Google recently filed an appeal with the highest court in France against the CNIL, the data protection authority of France. In 2015, the CNIL ordered Google to stop showing search results "forgotten" to everyone - essentially censor the Internet in places where France has no jurisdiction. Currently, Google follows Europe "the right to be forgotten" laws, but shows the search results "forgot" to people who use Google from a non-European IP address. In particular, the ongoing case between Google and France has nothing to do with the highly publicized raid on the Paris headquarters of Google by agents of the French tax authorities.

Although this Google vs France separate tax case may set a precedence for all other multinational companies whose nominal EU headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, this is far from the biggest thing going on between Google and the french Government. . If anything, the media hung predictable tax history at the expense of the "right to be forgotten" This story was drawn and played, so to speak; however, the tax story involves a raid high public and political officer at the right time, in daylight - the kind of thing that the media just loves Why EU law "right to be forgotten" as a sensitive point anyway [1945010?]

Force "right to oblivion" of censorship on the world? No, Thanks

Rick Falkvinge describes the problem with "right to forget" on the blog PIA There almost two years: " When the government can order something to forget, it gives the right to change history, to clear embarrassment, and protect its ranks against a free press, "the past is the past and the tool is now -. and has been used for good if porn revenge. More often, however, it has been used by Internet scammers to erase the evidence of their misdeeds. If people want in any jurisdiction this type of online environment, which is for them to vote; however, the base of a government to seek to enforce its rules on jurisdiction that has not explicitly made is amazing.

Google's general counsel, Kent Walker, explained why the company refused to acquiesce to the deeper demands of the French government: "... if the French law applies globally how long it until other countries - perhaps less open and democratic - start demanding that their laws governing information also are global "companies must resist blatant government requests - . there is no more effective way

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