11.05.2017 - 13:19 [ Techdirt ]

Dear Europe: Please Don‘t Kill Free Speech In The Name Of ‚Privacy Protection‘

Daphne Keller, who studies these things over at Stanford Law School‘s Center for Internet and Society has both a larger paper and a shorter blog post discussing this, specifically in the context of serious concerns about how the Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF) under the GDPR will be implemented, and how it may stifle freedom of expression across Europe. Right now, of course, the RTBF applies to search results, but under the GDPR it may expand to much more, including things like Twitter and Facebook: