Google's action on revenge porn opens the door on right to be forgotten in US
by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger from Technology | The Guardian on (#CCNG)
The history of 'forgetting' is really about making things hard to find, and what the company's new policy does is give people a limited right to obscurity
Google's recent decision to delist "revenge porn" from its search results is a big deal, and not just for victims. Beyond opposing harmful conduct that disproportionately targets women, Google has essentially demonstrated how something akin to the European Union's right to be forgotten can, and should, work in the US.
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