Saturday, July 12, 2014

Google to Tour Europe to Discuss Privacy

The search engine company will soon send a group of executives and legal experts, including the company’s executive chairman, Eric E. Schmidt, around the region to explain Google’s stance on online privacy.

The series of meetings, which is expected to start as early as September and last up to nine months, will form part of the company’s response to a recent European court ruling that gives people the right to ask that links about themselves be removed from certain Internet searches.

On Friday in Europe, Google opened a website for its 10-person privacy advisory group. The site includes an area where people can give suggestions for how the company should respond to the court’s decision.

The privacy committee includes Mr. Schmidt and Google’s top lawyer, David C. Drummond. Other members are Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, who has been a vocal critic of Europe’s so-called right to be forgotten, and several European data protection experts, including José Luis Piñar, a former Spanish privacy regulator.

read full article at NY Times 


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