BetaNews: Google loses big ‘right to be forgotten’ case — and it could set an important precedent. “A businessman with an historic criminal conviction has won his case against Google in a ‘right to be forgotten’ lawsuit seeking to remove information about his conviction from search results. The case, heard today in London, could set a precedent and lead to a series of similar cases from other people with spent convictions. The anonymous businessman — known only as NT2 — has a conviction for conspiracy to intercept communications from more than a decade ago and spent six months in prison for the crime.”
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NPR: The Paris Lawyer Who Gives Google Nightmares
NPR: The Paris Lawyer Who Gives Google Nightmares. “Dan Shefet is an unlikely tech revolutionary. He’s not a young math geek who builds driverless cars, nor does he promise to make a tech product for the masses. His crusade is different. The 63-year-old year old Shefet has staged an astonishingly effective campaign in Europe to thwart the torrent of fake news and damaging personal attacks that course through the Internet by taking on the tech giants.”
The Register: Google lobbies hard to derail new US privacy laws – using dodgy stats
The Register: Google lobbies hard to derail new US privacy laws – using dodgy stats. “As blowback against Facebook and its business model enters its third week, with netizens railing against the amount and type of personal data the social network has on them, calls for new privacy laws have started growing. And in response so has a secret lobbying effort, spearheaded by Google, to head those calls off at the pass.”
Malta Independent: IT Law Association extremely concerned over court judgements being deleted from online database
Malta Independent: IT Law Association extremely concerned over court judgements being deleted from online database. “The Malta IT Law Association (MITLA) has said that it is ‘extremely concerned’ about recent reports that private individuals have successfully requested that court cases decided against them be deleted from online court databases, ‘without having in place clear rules as to how the right to be forgotten is being exercised with respect to public registers.'”
Lovin Malta: It’s Official: You Can Now Get Your Online Court Judgments Deleted [Malta]
Lovin Malta: It’s Official: You Can Now Get Your Online Court Judgments Deleted [Malta]. “Pandora’s Box risks getting opened now that Justice Minister Owen Bonnici has confirmed people are allowed to request the deletion of their court records from the online database. This tool only became public today after it was successfully applied by a newly minted lawyer to delete a 2010 criminal sentence that conditionally discharged her for stealing a credit card. However, Bonnici said the tool has actually been in place since he was appointed minister 2014 and has been successfully applied around 12 times.” Just to be clear: this is MALTA, not the US.
The Times: Businessman sues Google to have his crime forgotten
The Times: Businessman sues Google to have his crime forgotten. “The claimant was convicted of conspiracy to account falsely in the late 1990s and wants the search engine to remove results that mention his case. He is ‘treated as a pariah in his personal, business and social life’ and has been “’unable to form any new friendships or personal relationships’ because of online newspaper articles about his conviction, according to court papers.”
Google Blog: Updating our “right to be forgotten” Transparency Report
Google Blog: Updating our “right to be forgotten” Transparency Report. “Today, we’re expanding the scope of our transparency reporting about the ‘right to be forgotten’ and adding new data going back to January 2016 when our reviewers started manually annotating each URL submitted to us with additional information…”
