Poll: Should we have the 'right to be forgotten' on the internet?
People do not have an "unfettered" right to have links to internet articles containing information about them removed under a so-called "right to be forgotten", a minister is expected to say today.
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Liberal Democrat justice minister Simon Hughes will tell members of the House of Lords Home Affairs Committee that there is no such thing as a right to be forgotten, the Daily Telegraph reported.
A landmark European court decision in May said Google must listen and sometimes comply when individuals ask the search engine to remove links to newspaper articles or websites containing personal information.
