Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Showing posts with label national governments increasingly demanding Google remove info from Web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national governments increasingly demanding Google remove info from Web. Show all posts
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Government Requests to Remove Online Material Increase at Google; New York Times, 12/19/13
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times; Government Requests to Remove Online Material Increase at Google:
"Governments, led by the United States, are increasingly demanding that Google remove information from the Web...
Often, the requests come from judges, police officers and politicians trying to hide information that is critical of them. The most common request cites defamation, often of officials...
Government requests to remove information increased most significantly in Turkey and Russia because of online censorship laws, according to Google...
Google also said officials were resorting to new legal methods to demand that Google remove content, such as citing copyright law to take down transcripts of political speeches or government news releases."
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