Reuters reports a senior EU official has criticized a series of public meetings Google held in Europe on the right to be forgotten, claiming the meetings were part of lobbying efforts against EU data protection rules. Google’s been holding the meetings after Europe’s top court ruled in May that the search engine must remove links to searchable information that’s deemed “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant.” At Google’s Brussels meeting, Paul Nemitz, a director in the European Commission’s justice department, said while Google’s panels might be a “good-faced effort to find practical solutions to the problem,” they may also represent “passive-aggressiveness toward our data protection rules and our jurisprudence.”
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