Before Google, if you wanted to find out about a person, you
had to go to a library to pore through newspaper archives and public
records. Now a newly-proposed U.K. law may force researchers back to the
bookshelves – or at least to the British Library’s website.
New plans
from the British government will make it easier for people to delete
embarrassing or erroneous information about themselves online. U.K.
Digital Minister Matt Hancock said in early August the government would
introduce new privacy legislation that would expand “the right to be
forgotten,” beyond just search engine results to any personal data held
by a third party – from social media sites such as Facebook Inc. to forums run by video game companies, like Germany’s Bigpoint GmbH, which produces massively multiplayer online game Battlestar Galactica.https://bloom.bg/2wm8oSFhttps://bloom.bg/2wm8oSF+--
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