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People do not have the right to erase the web’s memory

Perhaps the European Court of Justice wants to equal the US Supreme Court in a display of poor judgment. That might explain why it ruled this week that a 19-year-old directive means Google must remove some search results that people do not like.

There may be arcane logic under European law to classifying internet search engines as “data controllers” along with publishers and holders of personal data such as government computers. But this only shows that the EU’s 1995 data protection directive is an ass.

A line will soon form to knock out revealing photographs, bits of tawdry gossip, legal orders, past convictions and anything that anyone finds an embarrassment. Before long, people’s search results will start to resemble official biographies, recording only the facts that they want other people to know, and not the remainder of reality.

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約翰•加普

約翰·加普(John Gapper)是英國《金融時報》副主編、首席產業評論員。他的專欄每週四會出現在英國《金融時報》的評論版。加普從1987年開始就在英國《金融時報》工作,報導勞資關係、銀行和媒體。他曾經寫過一本書,叫做《閃閃發亮的騙局》(All That Glitters),講的是霸菱銀行1995年倒閉的內幕。

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