Right to be forgotten?

BBC News EU court backs 'right to be forgotten' in Google case 13 May 2014 A top EU court has ruled Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called "right to be forgotten".

The EU ruling enforcing the supposed "right to be forgotten" impinges on the "right to knowledge" and conflicts with the legal precedent that a valid total defence against a "defamation" charge is "truth."