Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Minister Says U.K. Government Opposes Right to Forget Principle in EU Regulation

The U.K. government is against the inclusion of a right to be forgotten principle in the proposed European Union data protection regulation, U.K. Justice and Civil Liberties Minister Simon Hughes told a U.K. Parliament subcommittee July 9.

 The House of Lords Affairs, Health and Education European Union Sub-Committee met to discuss the consequences of the European Court of Justice's May 13 ruling that data subjects can in certain circumstances require Google and other Internet search engines to remove links to websites containing personal information about them.

 The U.K. government plans to reiterate its opposition to include the right to be forgotten principle in the European Commission's proposed data protection regulation, which would replace the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), he said.

read full article at Bloomberg


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