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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I hope Google cuts off the EU from all services until they change the bullshit ruling.

Good Search, Google Mail, YouTube, Apps, Docs, Android Market...

Lets say ten years ago (this is the period we are talking) you were a bit down on your luck, between jobs like we say in the UK, and you had your house re-possessed, and you local newspaper reported it, as a by-line, a one paragraph piece in the depths of the paper.

Now ten years later, when you have paid back all you owe, and your credit rating is clean, you apply for a mortgage, and just out of interest, the loan manager Googles your name, and this piece of information is top of the page, and because of it, he decides not to give you another mortgage, would you consider that fair? the information is no longer relevant, the debt has been paid, and the poor credit rating time has been served.

So why should something that happened ten years ago, affect the decisions of today ?

More and more prospective employers, banks and other financial industries are turning to the net to find out about people.

What the European Courts are saying is that Google has a duty to ensure that the information available is relevant to today.

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Originally Posted by Zachery

That doesn't change the fact you'd still be able to find the page, if you wanted to.

You probably could, and the courts have said that they cannot force the paper to take the page down, as that would infringe freedom of the press.

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Originally Posted by Paul M

How is a european court going to force Google to do anything ?

The idiot has drawn far more attention to the page he wanted to forget than google could ever have done.

Because if Google UK doesn't obey the European Courts ruling, it can be held in contempt of court, which could lead to the directors/owners being arrested and tried for contempt of court.