Norman Haga finds it to be interesting that the recent holding in the European Court requires Google to remove links to content when requested. While Google has not yet complied with this ruling, Norman Haga believes that everyone has the right to be forgotten.
This holding does not apply to the United States. Indeed, there are hearings in the United States Congress in which there are attempts to determine who owns the data and information about a person. The two sides to the issue are 1. that the agency, data miner or data aggregator owns the information about the person it collects the data on; and 2. the person that the data is about is the owner of that information.
Norman believes that every person is deserving of the dignity of privacy. No information about a person should be shared without the permission of the person the information is about consenting to the use of that data.
Norman Haga believes that there are exceptions in which a person does not need to give permission to use data about themselves so that it may be used. Truly news worthy articles about a public figure is one such exception. Public information obtained from the government that is not exempted the Freedom of Information Act would be another. A third example would be a new article published or transmitted about a person by a legitimate newspaper or television news station would be another.
Why does Norman Haga believe that publishing links to information about a person should be restricted, absent a few exceptions, and deleted from the search engines upon request? The World Wide Web is most closely akin to the old and wild west of the United States. If you do not like somebody, then you can write a defamatory libelous article and vengeful article about that person, and as long as the libelous article is correctly worded, then there is no liability to the libeler and very great harm to the individual or business libeled.
You can view this. more often than not, unverified and harmful content on sites like Rip Off Report, Pissed Consumer, Yelp, and many other consumer complaint sites. The website itself is protected by the Cable Decency Act because the content is user generated. Some of these websites protect the identities of the posters of that harmful content. In addition, many of those sites require a hefty fee to investigate the complaint paid by the person or business offended and still will not remove the content when false, while others will remove the content one their fee is paid. It is the opinion of Norman Haga that these sites engage in extortion like activity.
Removing links to the offending content does not remove the content, it only makes the content less visible on the internet. While some may claim that it is a free speech issue, all rights do have limits. Google and the other search internet search engines not only aggregate the information, but they also choose where and how to place that information. In turn this means that the search engines are not taking a passive position in the collection of data and information, but rather they are acting as an active participant when negative or harmful information is displayed. In addition the search engines are using that information to generate revenue.
Because of these facts, Norman Haga believes that the search engines should be responsible for the information the generate and use by not listing and removing links to content that harms a business or a person and that is legitimately unverified.
This holding does not apply to the United States. Indeed, there are hearings in the United States Congress in which there are attempts to determine who owns the data and information about a person. The two sides to the issue are 1. that the agency, data miner or data aggregator owns the information about the person it collects the data on; and 2. the person that the data is about is the owner of that information.
Norman believes that every person is deserving of the dignity of privacy. No information about a person should be shared without the permission of the person the information is about consenting to the use of that data.
Norman Haga believes that there are exceptions in which a person does not need to give permission to use data about themselves so that it may be used. Truly news worthy articles about a public figure is one such exception. Public information obtained from the government that is not exempted the Freedom of Information Act would be another. A third example would be a new article published or transmitted about a person by a legitimate newspaper or television news station would be another.
Why does Norman Haga believe that publishing links to information about a person should be restricted, absent a few exceptions, and deleted from the search engines upon request? The World Wide Web is most closely akin to the old and wild west of the United States. If you do not like somebody, then you can write a defamatory libelous article and vengeful article about that person, and as long as the libelous article is correctly worded, then there is no liability to the libeler and very great harm to the individual or business libeled.
You can view this. more often than not, unverified and harmful content on sites like Rip Off Report, Pissed Consumer, Yelp, and many other consumer complaint sites. The website itself is protected by the Cable Decency Act because the content is user generated. Some of these websites protect the identities of the posters of that harmful content. In addition, many of those sites require a hefty fee to investigate the complaint paid by the person or business offended and still will not remove the content when false, while others will remove the content one their fee is paid. It is the opinion of Norman Haga that these sites engage in extortion like activity.
Removing links to the offending content does not remove the content, it only makes the content less visible on the internet. While some may claim that it is a free speech issue, all rights do have limits. Google and the other search internet search engines not only aggregate the information, but they also choose where and how to place that information. In turn this means that the search engines are not taking a passive position in the collection of data and information, but rather they are acting as an active participant when negative or harmful information is displayed. In addition the search engines are using that information to generate revenue.
Because of these facts, Norman Haga believes that the search engines should be responsible for the information the generate and use by not listing and removing links to content that harms a business or a person and that is legitimately unverified.