When you look for yourself online, are you happy with what the Web reflects back?
Unlike your real reflection, there’s very little you can do directly to control how the Web, and especially search which displays you.
The fallout from the recent European court of justice ruling on the “right to be forgotten” has reached far and wide in the past week, prompting an international discussion about how personal information is used online.
The top European court has backed the “right to be forgotten” and said Google must delete “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” data from its results when a member of the public requests it.
In 2010, Mario Costeja González of Spain sued Google and the Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia for displaying in the search results for his name “an announcement for a real estate auction organized following attachment proceedings for the recovery of social security debts owed by Mr. Costeja González,” according to a report released by the court. He wanted either Google or the paper to remove the record. He wanted to start over.
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