{"id":7601,"date":"2014-05-17T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T00:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2014-05-17T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T00:04:07","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-googling-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/is-this-the-end-of-googling-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This the End Of Googling As We Know It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quinn: Is the ‘right to be forgotten’ the end of Googling as we know it?<\/h1>\n

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I hadn’t known about the “right to be forgotten” until Europe’s top court ruled last week that Google was required to remove links from its search engine upon an individual’s request.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A new right! I should be happy.<\/p>\n

According to the court ruling, people are entitled to shape what is seen about them on the search engine, our collective memory aide.<\/p>\n

The ruling won’t affect U.S. Google users, yet it could spur calls here for “right to be forgotten” reforms.<\/p>\n

While being able to selectively erase people’s memories has a utopian appeal, I worry about another long-held right, one that isn’t in the U.S. Constitution either — my Right to Google.<\/p>\n

Like many people, I feel entitled to find out stuff about people without them controlling the experience.<\/p>\n

Googling someone is what we do before and after we meet potential baby sitters, tax preparers, gardeners, mayoral candidates, karate instructors, long-lost friends — in other words, everyone. Often it’s a frivolous pursuit, but it can cough up critical information that can change the course of lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quinn: Is the ‘right to be forgotten’ the end of Googling as we know it?   I hadn’t known about the “right to be forgotten” until Europe’s top court ruled last week that Google was required to remove links from its search engine upon an individual’s request. A new right! I should be happy. According to the court\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}