[Chapter-delegates] Right to be Forgotten

[Chester Soong]

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Hi Glenn and Christine,

I think the article is fear in asking the questions of such privacy 
rights from the users perspective in a technological world such as the 
Internet. But there are two important legal issues that most of these 
articles failed to bring up: The ruling or the judgement as a whole did 
not address the right to freedom of speech, which is one of the 
fundamental rights of their CF (Charter of Fundamental Rights) of the EU 
and that serves also as the foundation of the Data Protection 
Directives. It is why many people working in the privacy laws field 
believe the judgment is troublesome. The other significant issue is that 
this is the first case which the ECJ is "reaching out" with its 
jurisdiction to organizations outside of the EU. The judgement made a 
distinguishing definition between the roles Google Inc. and Google Spain 
SL in the case, where Google Spain as a sales agent of Google Inc. So 
even when Google Inc. doesn't have any presence in the EU, while it 
relies on the revenue generated by Google Spain, it established a 
connection between Google Inc. to the EU presence. This has a 
significant effect for organizations, especially commercial entities, 
who are doing business with EU citizens without any EU presence (or 
think they don't have EU presence) may find themselves subject to the EU 
Data Protection laws.

My two cents.

Regards,


Chester

On 27/07/2014 9:39 PM, Christine Runnegar wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing this Glenn.
>
> And here is a link to the press release from the EU Article 29 Data Protection Working Party regarding the meeting with search engine providers
>
> http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/press-material/press-release/art29_press_material/20140725_wp29_press_release_right_to_be_forgotten.pdf
>
> On 24 Jul 2014, at 7:18 pm, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting article on the  'Right to be forgotten' in Europe and Google
>>
>> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/24/google-hauled-in-by-europe-over-right-to-be-forgotten-reaction
>>
>>
>> Glenn McKnight
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