Internet giant Google has received more than 12,000 requests from people
in Europe wanting past information from their lives to be "forgotten"
in online searches. The case pits privacy against freedom of
information.
Past privacy rulings
Advocates
hailed the decision as an advancement of personal privacy in the Internet age, while critics have either said
it amounts to censorship, or that it could serve to help the rich, powerful or criminal to conceal information.
In January, a German court ordered Google to block search results in
German linking to photos of a role-playing sex-party, set in a prison
environment, involving former FIA President Max Mosley. France had
issued a similar court order to Google on the Mosley case late last
year.
The former head of motorsport's global governing body, also a key
Formula One figure for more than a decade, survived an FIA members' vote
of confidence in 2008 related to the scandal, first reported in
Britain's now-defunct Sunday paper the News of the World. However, in
2009, Mosley agreed not to run for a fifth term as FIA president.
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