The Right To Be Forgotten

Europe’s highest court ruled recently that people have the "right to be forgotten" and can ask Google to remove some sensitive information from Internet search results. The court ruled that Google, if asked to do so, must amend links to information shown to be outdated or information deemed to be irrelevant. While these results apply only to Europe, for now, it could have consequences here in the US as well. As many who have been cyberbullied have discovered, it is almost impossible to have information removed from an online link. The ruling states that the individual's fundamental rights override "the economic interest of the operator of the search engine but also the interest of the general public" in having access to that information. Stay tuned to see how this plays out over time. Right now, there are far more questions than answers about what this ruling means.