Take note, America: the European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, has just ruled that search engines like Google must give users something similiar to an opt-out clause to allow some of their private details to be "forgotten." Search engines must abide by user requests to delete certain pages from their indexes, except in cases where there are "particular reasons" to keep that information public, the court said.
The decision can be interpreted as a win for privacy advocates. However, it raises concerns about who controls the Internet and about whether the line between privacy and censorship has potential to become dangerously blurry.
[via The New York Times]
