Posts Tagged "right to be forgotten"

November 3, 2015 (Hong Kong Free Press) — Hong Kong’s Administrative Appeals Board has ruled that hyperlinks to court judgments must be removed from an activist’s website, because they disclosed the identity of a person whose name was redacted in the judgments. Activist David Webb complained that the decision established a “right to be forgotten” without any proper legislation, which will make public data private. One...

October 28, 2015 (Hong Kong Free Press) — Three companies under the Oriental Press Group (OPG), parent company of the newspapers Oriental Daily and The Sun, are suing Google for libelous content on its websites. Oriental Press Group Limited, Oriental Daily Publisher Limited and The Sun News Publisher Limited have filed three separate lawsuits against blogspot.hk and groups.google.com. Two lawsuits relate to allegedly libelous...

Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner Allan Chiang has urged Google to extend the “right to be forgotten” to Hong Kong and elsewhere beyond the European Union. In a controversial ruling in May 2014, the European Court of Justice held that individuals in the EU had a right to ask search companies to remove links to information about them that is “inadequate, irrelevant, no longer relevant or excessive.”...