Posted on 02/11/2016 5:55:37 AM PST by Enlightened1
Google GOOGL +0.83% is removing the loophole allowing European users to sidestep the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling that censors their search results.
After the European Court of Justice ruled two years ago that people could ask for search results to be removed if they contained inaccurate or ‘outdated’ information, Google attempted to strike a compromise.
It complied with the order – but only for European versions of its website. This meant that European users wanting to see uncensored results have only to log on to Google.com to get the unedited version; and plenty do.
This state of affairs, as you might imagine, isn’t good enough for the European authorities, and in September last year the French data protection authority, CNIL, ordered the company to start removing offending content from its sites worldwide.
And while the initial fine was set at just €300,000 – a drop in the ocean for a company with annual revenues of about $66 billion – Google was told this could rise to an extraordinary 5% of global operating costs under new data protection legislation set to come in next year.
And now, says Reuters, the company’s come up with another compromise: to censor non-European domains, but only when they’re being accessed from the country where the right to be forgotten request has been made.
For example, if a British citizen made a successful removal request, nobody accessing Google search from the UK would be able to see the removed item, whichever national version of Google they used. Anybody searching the same domain from outside the EU, meanwhile, would see the full list of results.
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The Control Freaks are strong in Europe.
Would startpage or dogpile undermine this?
It is frightening in its matter-of-factly presentation.
Only if they continue to use Google and only if they continue to use one of the standard browsers.
What this world REALLY needs is a good Conservative search engine.
We can’t ever get a good conservative cup of coffee...
I would be happy with an ideologically-neutral search engine.
L’offensive islamique en Europe: un Tet numero 2 ?
To bypass EU censorship, my essay “Tet, Take Two: Islam’s 2016 European Offensive” has been translated into French. (German is coming soon.) For now, it is still legal to post links in European websites leading to external websites.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/02/loffensive-islamique-en-europe-un-tet-numero-2/
The EU smells bad. Ewwwww.
That’s a couple ways to get around it.
You should create one.
I notice that where I work, now on Win10 Startpage is blocked and I cannot even go there.
Yep. Been using Startpage for years - it doesn't retain any history of your searches. Re: Windows 10 - I won't install that spyware on my computers. My wife and daughter did - their problem. If Startpage is blocked at your workplace, that was probably a decision made by your admin. Try dogpile.
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