{"id":48444,"date":"2014-05-28T20:28:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=48444"},"modified":"2014-05-28T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:28:32","slug":"right-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/right-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Be Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Right to Be Forgotten<\/h4>\n

by Jim Hillier for Daves Computer Tips<\/p>\n

European courts are awarding individuals the ‘right to be forgotten’ –on search engines.
–PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

If you tend to keep up with current news you will no doubt have come across the multitude of stories regarding the European Court of Justice\u2019s recent decision to award individuals the \u2018right to be forgotten\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Right to be Forgotten \u2013 Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

First off, let\u2019s take a look at how this all came about:<\/p>\n

On March 5, 2010, a lawyer named Mario Costeja Gonz\u00e1lez lodged a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency against a newspaper called La Vanguardia. Twelve years earlier, Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s house had been auctioned off to pay his social security debts, and La Vanguardia ran a brief article about it. The article was factually accurate, but Gonz\u00e1lez felt it was no longer relevant to his life. He wasn\u2019t happy that it came up when you Googled him either, so he added Google to the complaint for good measure.<\/p>\n

Article Continued Here<\/a><\/p>\n

These excerpts are shared with permission from davescomputertips.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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