Right To Be Forgotten “Small Thing” Vs. Copyright Takedowns Says EU Commissioner

European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding was quoted in a BBC interview saying that the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) will be relatively easy for Google to administer. She asserted that, compared to the millions of copyright removal requests Google deals with, the thousands of RTBF requests are a “small thing.”

Google also manages government removal requests on a global basis.

These scenarios seem to indicate that Google will be able to manage a RTBF process. The challenge isn’t in the mechanics of administration. The central challenge concerns the standards and rules about what can and should be removed and how to be consistent about their application.

Once again, the European Court of Justice held that RTBF requests should be granted when content on search engines is “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive.” Right now European data protection officials are meeting to try and develop uniform standards to apply across Europe.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/eu-commissioner-right-forgotten-small-thing-vs-copyright-takedowns-193485