EFTA02342838.pdf

From: Joi Ito <ji@media.mit.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:47 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Google/EU Attachments: signature.asc I'm sure you saw the news about Google in the EU, but if you haven't, an =xcerpt. » Today the EU's highest court interpreted the EU's 1995 Data » =rotection Directive to mean that individuals should have a shot at » insisting =hat Google and other search engines remove certain search » results found =pon a search for their names, not because they are » false, or infringe =opyright, but because they violate a "respect for » private life" or a "right=to protection of personal data." What does » that mean specifically? =ot easy to say. Neither the opinion nor the Court's press release is clear =n that. » Among the many cases pending about it, the one that the Court heard » =nvolved a Spanish citizen who did not like that people could find » the public =ecords of a foreclosure sale of one of his properties. » So that's not =ersonal, secret information that was somehow » uncovered; it's a public record =r fact made more searchable. And » it's not in the narrow category of things =ike social security » numbers that might be in public documents, but for =hich Google and » other search engines have taken some steps to make them =ot work as » search terms. (Same with credit card numbers.) 1 EFTA_R1_01310294 EFTA02342838