Google will hold its first of the 7 meetings in Madrid on Tuesday to debate on the controversial “right to be forgotten” ruling.
The 7-meeting series has been called for in the wake of the European Court of Justice ruling which requires the search engines to remove information from its search results on individual’s request.
Opposing the EU court ruling, Google stresses on how the “right to be forgotten” ruling is contradicting individuals’ rights to privacy and online freedom of speech.
The company said it had received more than 90,000 requests by mid-July and that it has accepted more than half of the requests to remove information deemed as “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” from its search results.
The meetings will be presided by the advisory council set by Google which includes Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales; a former German justice minister, 2 academics, as well as the search engine’s general counsel David Drummond and chairman Eric Schmidt. The council will discuss on how laws can be enforced as to strike a balance between freedom of information and the right to be forgotten.
Google noted that the contributions from government, business, media, academia, the technology sector, data protection organizations and other organizations with a particular interest in the area, are also invited.
The Tuesday Madrid meeting will be followed by one in Rome on September 10, in Paris on September 25, in Warsaw on September 30, in Berlin on October 14, in London on October 16, and in Brussels on November 4.
The meetings will also be streamed live online in English.
