Re: [LUG] EU ruling on Google

On 18 May 2014 18:52:33 GMT+01:00, Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 18 May 2014 18:25:26 BST, lug@xxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 18 May 2014 15:25:14 +0100, Philip Hudson
<phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, no, no. The test is objective and subject to legal challenge:
irrelevant and outdated personal information that disadvantages an
individual must not be the first or only result returned. Not just "I
don't like it" but "it's harmful misinformation for *both* the public
*and* the individual"...

Obviously not irrelevant (especially if you were going to lend this guy
money or extend him credit), not outdated (not really that long ago)
and
not misinformation (it's true). Apart from that you are bang
on!

Rather than waste what I guess is a ton of cash on lawyers (I don't
suppose he is paying though) this guy should have set-up a website
detailing his generous donations to charity or how he fosters sick cats
or how he did some fantastic deeds and get his mates to link to it then
this wouldn't be the only thing Google can find out about him. The fact
that he hasn't taken that pretty obvious step indicates to me that he
isn't a good guy so isn't really deserving of our sympathy.

Let's just say that instead of going bankrupt (which must surely be
commonplace in Spain these days) he had murdered someone. On coming out
of jail he hears about Google and does a search on himself and is
surprised to find just one hit detailing his crime. Would it be okay
for him to get that taken down?

As Spock would say, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the
few, or the one."

Kevin

Interestingly under UK law, if you go bankrupt then the discharge default is after a year. It is removed from your credit record after 7 years.

I believe this is part of the process that punishment is not meant to go on forever. (In the us, I believe I read recently, some states mandate that a criminal record should not be taken into account in a job application)

FWIW I also understood that in Spain, if you go bankrupt then your mortgage debt is not written off.

If I am correct then I do wonder what would happen to a UK expat who went bankrupt in Spain and then returned home