Infinite Loop
The United Kingdom is enforcing a 2014 E.U. law allowing “the right to be forgotten” — the right of people to demand online search engines delete links to stories about themselves if the stories embarrass them. When the law was first invoked, news sites published articles about it; they had been alerted because Google notifies the sites affected. Now, people are upset that links to those news stories are keeping their names in the limelight. Thus, the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office ordered Google to remove the links to the articles about the removals, too. Because Google notifies the sites affected, now there are articles about removing links to articles about removed links. (RC/Wall Street Journal) ...You don’t have to be as famous as Barbra Streisand to suffer from the Streisand Effect.Original Publication Date: 23 August 2015
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 22.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 22.
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