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Sunday 30 September 2018

CBC News: How a 'right to be forgotten' could trigger a battle over free speech in Canada

Author: James Alexander Michie

The Privacy Commissioner that promotes European-style defenses to approve the removal of online search results, since any legal experts to make Parliament welcome a "right to be forgotten" for Canadians is founding that could be transformed as a historical contest in the conflict between privacy and freedom of expression on the Internet.

Similarly, during the course of this week, Daniel Therrien who is the Privacy Commissioner, said that his intention to seek clarity with the Federal Court as to whether the laws already established and in force, already granted to the Canadians the right to require search engines to remove links to material that is outdated, incomplete or incorrect, a process called "de-indexing".

For its part, Google, which is established as the dominant search engine company in the world, does not share the same criteria since it does not agree and consequently warns that a fundamental right of the statutes is being threatened. Similarly, Google's global privacy advisor, Peter Fleischer said: "The right to be forgotten affects our ability to fulfill our mission, which is to provide relevant search results for our users" and also expressed "In addition, it limits the ability of our users to discover legal and legitimate information."

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