David Cameron wades into Google ‘right to be forgotten’ row with reservations
A growing ruckus over a European court ruling granting citizens the right to have links to information held about them online has been joined by no less than the Prime Minister, who voiced reservations about the idea.
Though government is still considering the court ruling a spokesperson for the PM said: “I think the prime minister's view is that it is right that people take some time to look at this judgment. I think whilst taking time to consider and look at the judgment and possible implications, his view is that there is potentially a distinction to be drawn between dealing with the issue of information that is wrong, and correction of factually inaccurate information, as distinct from what some have characterised as seeking to hide factually correct information.
"I think that is a distinction that is relevant to this … the judgment is a fairly recent judgment, and a large number of parties will be considering it closely."
Hundreds of people have wasted no time in seeking to have salacious details of their past histories expunged from the web following the ruling; with a politician, paedophile and a doctor amongst those to submit early requests for removal.
For its part Google is also still considering the implications of the judgement and will not communicate the outcomes of that process for ‘several weeks’.