申論題

 The so-called “right to be forgotten” is climbing back up the news agenda. It all stems from a landmark decision by the European Court of Justice mandating that European citizens have a right to demand that links to online material about them that are deemed to be misleading or inaccurate should not appear in google search results. The judgement came as a surprise to most people and as a really big shock to Google. However, over the past year, the company has found a way of complying with the judgement—by setting up a process for handling requests for delisting and deleting successful applications from search results in all of its European search engines. Since Google had devised an efficient system for processing requests, it looked as though a pragmatic solution to a thorny problem had evolved.