Consumer Watchdog Continues Push for Right To Be Forgotten in US
The FTC Consumer Protection Bureau “confirmed the FTC is considering Consumer Watchdog’s complaint” last week (see 1507070023) that Google’s failure to honor right to be forgotten requests in the United States is an “unfair and deceptive practice,” Consumer Watchdog said…
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in a news release Tuesday. Consumer Watchdog will be joined tomorrow in Santa Monica, California at an event advocating for right to be forgotten requests to be honored in the U.S.by Christos Catsouras, the father of an 18-year-old California woman whose name “remains linked in Internet search results to graphic leaked police photos of her fatal car crash,” CW said. "Since the leak my family has been forced to relive the shock every time the horrific images reappear simply because there are no tools in place to stop it,” Catsouras said. “‘The Right To Be Forgotten' is the only chance for my family to find closure, and to finally grieve." Google and the FTC had no immediate comment.