Sylvia Tippman and Julia Powles report: Less than 5% of nearly 220,000 individual requests made to Google to selectively remove links to online information concern criminals, politicians and high-profile public figures, the Guardian has learned, with more than 95% of requests coming from everyday members of the public. The Guardian has discovered new data hidden in source…
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Google Photos may be uploading your pics, even if you don’t want it to
David A. Arnott reports: There they were, hundreds of photos I’d taken of my wife, my daughter, and me, grouped together by Google’s facial-recognition technology in the company’s Photos app, all snapped over the course of a little more than a month. The problem was, I’d deleted all of those pictures, and most distressing, I didn’t even…
Google Evaluates 1m ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Links
Matthew Broersma reports: Google has evaluated more than 1 million links submitted in “right to be forgotten” requests since last year’s landmark European Court of Justice ruling. The ruling in May of last year obliged search engines to remove links to outdated information about individuals if requested to do so. Google, who has by far the…
Right to be Forgotten: Supreme Court of British Columbia Denies Injunction to Compel Google to Remove Search Results Worldwide
Niemela v. Malamas, 2015 BCSC 2014 Roberto Ghignone writes: The issue in this case was whether Google Inc. was required to remove links to defamatory posts from worldwide search results, rather than just Canadian search results. The Plaintiff, Glenn Niemela, is lawyer based in the Vancouver area who has been the victim of online harassment and…