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Daily Dashboard | Op-Ed: Bringing Right to be Forgotten Stateside a Bad Idea Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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Consumer Watchdog’s petition asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to cow Google into bringing the Right to be Forgotten to the U.S. is exceedingly problematic, the Editorial Board of the Washington Post writes in an op-ed. “First, any FTC action likely would run afoul of the First Amendment,” they argue. “But they would become much harder to locate, with the FTC effectively prescribing what speech should be findable and what should not. The government shouldn’t entangle itself,” adding that “as much as possible, there should not be two worlds of public information online—an attenuated one that is accessible to all, and a wider realm that is accessible to those with more time, know-how or money.”
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