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(May 13)\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eGoogle and other search engines were thrust into an unwanted new role Tuesday  - caretaker of people's reputations - when Europe's highest court ruled that individuals should have some say over what information pops up when their names...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eGoogle and other search engines were thrust into an unwanted new role Tuesday  - caretaker of people's reputations - when Europe's highest court ruled that individuals should have some say over what information pops up when their names are Googled.\u003cbr/\u003eThe landmark ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union will force search engines to decide when to censor computer users' search results across the 28-nation bloc of over 500 million people.\u003cbr/\u003eThe decision _ which cannot be appealed _ was celebrated by some as a victory for privacy rights in the Internet age. \u003cbr/\u003eOthers warned it could lead to online censorship.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The effects really could be dramatic. It breaks the internet,\" said Jules Polonetsky, Executive Director of the Future of Privacy Forum, a Washington-based think tank that studies internet privacy issues and views the web as a place where people go to find information.\u003cbr/\u003eThe ruling applies to EU citizens and all search engines in Europe, including Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing. \u003cbr/\u003eIt has no immediate impact on the way Google and other search engines display their results in the U.S. or other countries outside Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eBut it could create logistical headaches for such companies by forcing them to make judgment calls about the fairness of information published on other websites.\u003cbr/\u003eIn its ruling, the EU court said search engines must listen and sometimes comply when people ask for the removal of links to newspaper articles or other sites containing outdated or otherwise objectionable information.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The court decided that this person's privacy right outweighs Google's interest in making any information available,\" said Polonetsky. \u003cbr/\u003eGoogle Inc. has long maintained that people with such complaints should take it up with the websites that posted the material.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's unclear exactly how the European court envisions Google and others handling complaints. \u003cbr/\u003eThe case was referred to the European Court from Spain's National Court, which asked for advice in the case of Mario Costeja, a Spaniard who found a search on his name turned up links to a notice that his property was due to be auctioned because of an unpaid welfare debt. \u003cbr/\u003eThe notice had been published in a Spanish newspaper in 1998, and was tracked by Google's robots when the newspaper digitized its archive.\u003cbr/\u003eCosteja argued that the debt had long since been settled, and he asked the Spanish privacy agency to have the reference removed.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 2010, the agency agreed, but Google refused and took the matter to court, saying it should not be asked to censor material that had been legally published by the newspaper.\u003cbr/\u003ePolonetsky says the ruling is a blow to transparency.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Legal, public information can be obscured simply because somebody decides that it's information that they would rather not be available,\" said Polonetsky. \u003cbr/\u003eDebates over the \"right to be forgotten\" _ to have negative information erased after a period of time _ have surfaced across the world as tech users struggle to reconcile the forgive-and-forget nature of human relations with the unforgiving permanence of the Internet.\u003cbr/\u003eThough the idea of such a right has generally been well-received in Europe, many in the U.S. have criticized it as a disguised form of censorship that could, for example, allow ex-convicts to delete references to their crimes or politicians to airbrush their records.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It really intersects with this fundamental right to freedom of speech,\" said Polonetsky.  \"That right, which in the U.S. is something we hold dear and is in the Constitution, is not as strong a right. It's an important principle in a lot of European countries, but it is not as central.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSome limited forms of a \"right to be forgotten\" exist in the U.S. and elsewhere _ for example, in regard to crimes committed by minors or bankruptcy regulations, both of which usually require that records be expunged in some way. \u003cbr/\u003eHowever, the burden falls on the publisher of the information, usually a government _ not on search engines.\u003cbr/\u003eMountain View, California - no date\u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior of Google headquarters\u003cbr/\u003e2. People walking out of Google building\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC - May 13, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e3.  SOUNDBITE:  (English) Jules Polonetsky, Executive Director, Future of Privacy Forum:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The court decided that this person's privacy right outweighs Google's interest in making any information available. It sounds like it's just about Google, but it's really actually very threatening to much of the internet. The internet is a place where you find information. Sometimes you go directly to a site, but very often the way you find information and the way you find the site that has that data is you search for it. So, if someone can tell search engines, news aggregators or maybe bloggers, sorry, that information tells us about some individual.  That individual doesn't want to be found. You need to take it down. The effects really could be dramatic. It breaks the internet.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Polonetsky\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE:  (English) Jules Polonetsky, Executive Director, Future of Privacy Forum:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It really intersects with this fundamental right to freedom of speech. Now, that right, which in the U.S. is something we hold dear and is in the Constitution, is not as strong a right. It's an important principle in a lot of European countries, but it is not as central, and we routinely have had courts that make decisions that we'd consider limiting of speech, but this I think a real doozy in that it really does limit the ability of many other people to know what could be essential information.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Polonetsky walking down hallway\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE:  (English) Jules Polonetsky, Executive Director, Future of Privacy Forum:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So it's a real blow to transparency if legal, public information can be obscured simply because somebody decides that it's information that they would rather not be available.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMountain View, California - no date\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various exteriors of Google headquarters\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC - May 13, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e9.  SOUNDBITE:  (English) Jules Polonetsky, Executive Director, Future of Privacy Forum:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Information used to decay and you could out-live or avoid being accountable for things that appeared and were public about you. Today, those are all there, and there is certainly a downside. The upside is we have access to all of the world's information at our fingertips, and it's impractical to put the genie back in the bottle and say we'd like obscurity one by one.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMountain View, California - no date\u003cbr/\u003e10. 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