[Chapter-delegates] ECJ: Internet search engine's data processing responsibilities

[Eric Burger]

Think of the illogicality of the decision. In order to ‘protect’ the privacy of an individual, we would REQUIRE a PRIVATE company to RECORD AND KEEP the PRIVATE information of the individual.

I.e., instead of the desired effect of erasing the individual’s information, this requires the PERMANENT STORAGE of the individual’s information.

Bizarre, Orwellian request, near Kafkaesque, if you ask me.

On May 13, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Matthew Ford <ford at isoc.org> wrote:

> +1. And why did the complainant sue Google and not the original (Spanish) source? It seems like a really hard way to go about not achieving what you want.
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> Mat
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> On 13 May 2014, at 11:55, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
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>> indexing crawlers just reflect what is on the web. Erasing links would require the crawler to REMEMBER what it is supposed to erase, even if the content is actually still on the web. Eventually you might end up having to remember more than there is on the web! Even if the content that was indexed went away, you would still have to remember in case it came back. This makes no sense to me.
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>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Frédéric Donck <donck at isoc.org> wrote:
>> Dear All
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>> Please find below a very important decision from the European Court of Justice.
>> In short, in its ruling from 13 May [Google vs Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD)], the Court of Justice of the European Union stated that an operator of Internet search engine is responsible for the processing that it carries out of personal data which appear on web pages published by third parties. More details in the attach. I would be interested to hear your views.
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>> We shall address it in our next EU newsletter but felt that the information deserved immediate distribution.
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>> Best Regards
>> Frederic
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>> Frederic Donck
>> Director European Regional Bureau
>> Internet Society
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