Google cannot become our only source of truth, but should we eliminate it as a source of truth?
What about other search engines? Social media shares? What happens when a journalist publishes an article based on offline investigation, does the right to be forgotten still apply? Search engines need to fight libelous SEO attacks, but this is a deeply unsettling over-reaction.
Let's drop the Orwellian phrasing and call it what it is: "Right to hide the past". Forget the truth, security through obscurity.
Knowledge is power, and search engines are the map.
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And hopefully it's obvious the issue of search results is separate from consumer data mining/ad profiling.
What about other search engines? Social media shares? What happens when a journalist publishes an article based on offline investigation, does the right to be forgotten still apply? Search engines need to fight libelous SEO attacks, but this is a deeply unsettling over-reaction.
Let's drop the Orwellian phrasing and call it what it is: "Right to hide the past". Forget the truth, security through obscurity.
Knowledge is power, and search engines are the map.
edit:
And hopefully it's obvious the issue of search results is separate from consumer data mining/ad profiling.