If Google can handle the millions of requests it gets to take down
content that infringes copyright, it should be able to handle the few
requests it gets to enforce the EU's "right to be forgotten", according
to Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental
rights and citizenship.
Addressing the inevitable subjectivity of decisions over whether
information is "irrelevant", Reding said that "everything is subjective
in human relations". But she pointed to a recent agreement by national
data protection authorities to form a subcommittee to agree on a unifrom
way to handle such requests as an "important" move.
Reding argued
that although the judgment was only handed down by the court recently,
"this decision has been taken in 1995," when the European law which
protects individuals' data was drafted. "We have wide European law that
was applied in all member states," she told the BBC, "and the only ones
who refused to apply European law in European territories were some
American companies. It took the European court of justice to remind them
that they have to apply the law like everyone else."
"EU law
which is agreed by all member states has to be applied by all companies.
Not just EU companies, but also those who use our internal market as a
goldmine."
read full article at The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/04/eu-commissioner-right-to-be-forgotten-enforce-copyright-google
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