Right to Be Forgotten : Backfires
We all remember the European Court of Justice ’ s recent lawsuit on Google titled “ Right to be forgotten ”. The lawsuit criticized how Google stores all information concerning every person and in fact , every entity . Some corporations and organizations were concerned that their mishaps or ill repute in the past may shadow their virtues in the current day . However , Google had intelligently responded to the lawsuit by making a web form accessible through which people or organizations could remove all their past information from Google .
The lawsuit was filed when a Spanish national had been involved in the auction of a property for over a decade . The auction was in place to resolve social security debts . Upon searching on Google his name , people found stories about the auction , however the man believed that the stories were old and they should not be seen on Google .
In some places , the ruling has been defined as an easy method to be forgotten and a new aspect of press censorship . The ruling allows people to request data controllers to remove their link to any outdated or irrelevant information . After proper investigation , if the request is found legitimate , the links will be removed . Hence , when their name is searched on the internet , the search results will not return links to those pages . However , if you happen to stumble upon that page through some other query or source , you can access that taboo information . The request for link removal will be rejected if the links in question are important for searches on that person ’ s name .
Ever since the form has been made accessible , people in tens of thousands have started to fill it and are requesting the search engine to remove their past links . This