http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17523020 Quote:
An influential group of UK lawmakers has called on Google to introduce an algorithm to remove search links found to be in breach of privacy - or face legislation to force it to do so.
It follows complaints from ex-Formula One boss Max Mosley about the difficulty he faced in getting a video removed from the internet.
The search giant argued it was not its job to monitor net content.
The cross-party committee said this argument was "totally unconvincing".
The report by a committee of MPs and peers was commissioned by the government to look into privacy and free speech issues after a series of high profile super-injunctions were made public last year.
Celebrities including Ryan Giggs found that gagging orders against newspapers were routinely flouted online. In Mr Giggs' case, the details of his super-injunction were mentioned at least 75,000 times on Twitter, the committee said.
Its report said that online firms needed to be brought in line with offline media in such cases.
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http://www.publications.parliament.u...nj/273/273.pdf the report.
I wonder how long it would take, if this system were put in place, for it to be abused by the government; my guess would be that the time could be measured in minutes. I'm not the trusting sort...
If I were Google, and they forced me to do this, I would put a link right on the front page listing the URLs that had been blocked and the reasons why, obviously not naming names.
What is it with governments and trying to mess about with the internet recently :dunno:
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