A COURT RULING TO ‘FORGET’ COULD GET EXPENSIVE FOR GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER $GOOG $MSFT $FB $TWTR $YELP
Technology often leaps ahead of the laws needed to deal with the aftermath of widespread adoption of new technologies. Monday’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, based in Luxembourg, illustrates the point. The court ordered Google to modify links to information that is irrelevant or outdated in a manner to forget such information..
The case was brought by Mario Costeja Gonzalez of Spain to force Google to delete an auction notice of his repossessed home from back in 1998. The court added the data that may be accurate or lawful when initially published may in due course need to be forgotten.… Please click here or the title below to read more.