{"id":655,"date":"2015-05-15T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=655"},"modified":"2017-11-23T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T11:21:12","slug":"dear-google-open-letter-on-transparency-in-right-to-be-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2015\/05\/15\/dear-google-open-letter-on-transparency-in-right-to-be-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Google: open letter on transparency in &#8216;right to be forgotten&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty top academics including Eerke Boiten from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\">School of Computing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/law\/people\/alecs\/McKenna,_Alan.html\">Alan Mckenna<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/law\/\">Kent Law School<\/a> have signed an open letter to Google, arguing for more public scrutiny over its\u00a0handling of\u00a0&#8216;right to be forgotten&#8217;\u00a0requests. The letter was featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/may\/14\/dear-google-open-letter-from-80-academics-on-right-to-be-forgotten\">the Guardian<\/a>\u00a0and stated that since\u00a0The European Court of Justice ruled that Google is responsible for removing links to outdated, irrelevant or misrepresentative information on search results for individuals, it has received 250,000 requests\u00a0to do so.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is argued, the\u00a0search engines have been left to decide how to determine complex judgments about the balance between personal privacy and access to information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/eab2\/\">Eerke Boiten<\/a>, director\u00a0of Kent&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybersec.kent.ac.uk\">Centre for Cyber Security<\/a>\u00a0is a regular contributor to public debate\u00a0on online privacy issues, and is quoted regularly in national media and technology publications as well as being regular contributor to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/googles-lip-service-to-privacy-cannot-conceal-that-its-profits-rely-on-your-data-37592\">The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0where he recently expressed his views on Google&#8217;s &#8216;right to be forgotten&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The letter can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/may\/14\/google-right-to-be-forgotten-academics-letter\">read in full<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty top academics including Eerke Boiten from the School of Computing and Alan Mckenna from Kent Law School have signed an open letter to Google, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2015\/05\/15\/dear-google-open-letter-on-transparency-in-right-to-be-forgotten\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,57908,122],"tags":[57886,11,25251,162,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}