To: Jeffrey Epsteinfieeyacation©gmail.com] From: Joi Ito Sent: Thur 5/15/2014 12:46:30 AM Subject: Google/EU sianature.asc I'm sure you saw the news about Google in the EU, but if you haven't, an excerpt. >> Today the EU's highest court interpreted the EU's 1995 Data Protection >> Directive to mean that individuals should have a shot at insisting that >> Google and other search engines remove certain search results found upon a >> search for their names, not because they are false, or infringe copyright, >> but because they violate a "respect for private life" or a "right to >> protection of personal data." What does that mean specifically? Not easy >> to say. Neither the opinion nor the Court's press release is clear on that. >> Among the many cases pending about it, the one that the Court heard involved >> a Spanish citizen who did not like that people could find the public records >> of a foreclosure sale of one of his properties. So that's not personal, » secret information that was somehow uncovered; it's a public record or fact >> made more searchable. And it's not in the narrow category of things like >> social security numbers that might be in public documents, but for which >> Google and other search engines have taken some steps to make them not work >> as search terms. (Same with credit card numbers.) EFTA_R1_00372875 EFTA01926512