Daniel Boffey, The Guardian; Dutch surgeon wins landmark 'right to be forgotten' case
"A Dutch surgeon formally disciplined for her medical negligence has won a legal action to remove Google search results about her case in a landmark “right to be forgotten” ruling...
Google and the Dutch data privacy watchdog, Autoriteit
Persoonsgegevens, initially rejected attempts to have the links removed
on the basis that the doctor was still on probation and the information
remained relevant.
However, in what is said to be the first right to be forgotten case
involving medical negligence by a doctor, the district court of
Amsterdam subsequently ruled the surgeon had “an interest in not
indicating that every time someone enters their full name in Google’s
search engine, (almost) immediately the mention of her name appears on
the ‘blacklist of doctors’, and this importance adds more weight than
the public’s interest in finding this information in this way”...
The European court of justice established the “right to be forgotten” in a 2014 ruling relating to a Spanish citizen’s claim against material about him found on Google searches. It
allows European citizens to ask search engines to remove links to
“inadequate, irrelevant or … excessive” content. About 3 million people
in Europe have since made such a request."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Dutch surgeon wins landmark 'right to be forgotten' case; The Guardian, January 21, 2019
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