
9 Feb
2017
9 Feb
'17
10:05 p.m.
“[A] website in Romania ... obtained and posted Canadian judicial and tribunal decisions. These were all public documents, but they were not previously indexed by Google, which meant their contents were effectively hidden. The Romanian site allowed its copies to be indexed by Google, which made the decisions and the Canadian citizens involved visible for the first time -- something the people affected were not happy about. They complained to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, who ruled that the Romanian site violated Canadian privacy law.” <https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170208/02314536660/landmark-court-decision-means-canada-has-now-joined-right-to-be-forgotten-globally-club.shtml>