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#102 - Should The U.S. Adopt The Right To Be Forgotten Online?

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🗓️ 18 March 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, the European Union’s Court of Justice determined that individuals have a right to be forgotten, “the right—under certain conditions—to ask search engines to remove links with personal information about them.” It is not absolute, but meant to be balanced against other fundamental rights, like freedom of expression. In a half year following the Court’s decision, Google received over 180,000 removal requests. Of those reviewed and processed, 40.5% were granted. Largely seen as a victory in Europe, in the U.S., the reaction has been overwhelmingly negative. Was this ruling a blow to free speech and public information, or a win for privacy and human dignity? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:42.6

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1:03.2

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1:08.9

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1:55.8

When you go online and google yourself and we know that you do Google yourself, I do it.

2:07.9

I did it once, I've done it. Do you always like what it is that you see? Because sometimes some of

2:13.8

it can be unflattering. And is that how you want to be remembered by those links to unflattering

2:19.0

things? Five years from now or 50 years from now? Or do you wish that you had the power

2:24.0

to get some of those links removed? But if you had that power, what if somebody who had done

2:29.6

something bad had that power? What if a doctor who had committed malpractice also wanted to get

2:35.2

his links taken down? Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Well, in Europe they do have

2:39.8

something of a system that allows individuals to do this. They call it the right to be forgotten.

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