Google’s move to delist “revenge porn” from its search engines is a healthy step forward for the right to be forgotten, The Guardian reports. “Google has shown that the world won’t be knocked off its axis if the company goes beyond protecting financially relevant information … and takes aggressive steps to remove links to socially relevant information that can harm autonomy, reputation and emotional well-being,” the report continues. Governments and corporations share a duty to “invest in data protection rights,” the report states, noting those rights “will evolve through information-specific categories” and it’s less about being totally forgotten but rather made “obscure” online.
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