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Comment: Europe's 'Right to Be Forgotten' echoing around the world

By MLex Staff ( February 16, 2018, 20:56 GMT | Comment) -- Four years after a seminal court decision in Europe that declared there was a "Right to Be Forgotten" in search results, a growing number of nations in Latin America and Asia have begun to consider whether their citizens should also have the right to ask search engines to remove — or at least to obscure — search results that are inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. Collectively, the changes will likely mean that in more countries, Google, Microsoft and other search companies will be forced to assume the quasi-judicial role of balancing the rights to privacy and free expression in many of the world’s biggest Internet markets.In a North American democracy with a strong tradition of valuing free expression rights, the recent declaration by Canada’s top privacy official that existing law bestows Canadians with online privacy rights similar to Europe’s “Right to Be Forgotten” is a significant one....

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