Last week’s announcement that Google will begin suppressing links to URLs not only for searches on EU country-level domains, but also for searches conducted from within EU countries, is bad news, write Jens-Henrik Jeppesen and Emma Llansó.
Jens-Henrik Jeppesen is director for European affairs and Emma Llansó is director for the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology.
The move is the latest development in the debate over the “right to be forgotten”. In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union found that under the data protection directive, people in the EU have a right to demand that search engines de-list URLs linking to information that is “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive.”
We are sympathetic to people distressed by information about them in the public domain, we understand the desire to suppress such information in certain contexts, and we support targeted and proportionate policies to protect individuals’ right to privacy.
But our overriding concern with the Google Spain v AEPD Mario Costeja Gonzales ruling that triggered the right to be forgotten is that it enables broad restriction of access to lawful, public information, inevitably curbing free expression.
By Emma Llansó, Jens-Henrik Jeppesen
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