Google clash over global right to be forgotten returns to court

Google’s battle against French proponents of a worldwide “right to be forgotten” enters a decisive phase at the European Union’s top court on Thursday, in a case that highlights the growing tensions between privacy, freedom of speech and state censorship.

Ahead of a ruling later this year, an adviser at the EU Court of Justice will on Jan. 10 deliver an opinion on whether the world’s most-used search engine can limit the geographical scope of the privacy right to EU-based searches.

Google has been fighting efforts led by France’s privacy watchdog to globalize the right to be forgotten after the EU court’s landmark ruling in 2014 forcing the search engine to remove links to information about a person on request if it’s outdated or irrelevant. The Alphabet Inc. unit currently removes such links EU-wide and since 2016 it also restricts access to such information on non-EU Google sites when accessed from the EU country where the person concerned by the information is located.

The worldwide solution would put global search engine providers “slap bang in the middle of a conflict of law problem, where on the one hand they might be subject to an obligation to enable freedom of speech, and in the EU they’d be invited to suppress it,” Richard Cumbley, global head of technology at law firm Linklaters, said by phone.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/google-clash-over-global-right-to-be-forgotten-returns-to-court-1.1195540

NASA STUDY: ONE OF THE FASTEST SHRINKING GREENLAND GLACIERS IS GROWING AGAIN

One of fastest shrinking ice glaciers in the world is reversing course and starting to accumulate ice at an alarming pace, a new NASA study published Monday finds.

The Jakobshavn glacier, located in Greenland, began thinning around 2012 to nearly 130 feet annually. It’s been growing again at about the same rate for the past two years, a study in Nature Geoscience noted. Scientists reacted with surprise, noting that they grew accustomed to the glacier receding.

“That was kind of a surprise. We kind of got used to a runaway system,” Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ice and climate scientist Jason Box told AP reporters Monday. “The good news is that it’s a reminder that it’s not necessarily going that fast. But it is going.” (RELATED: The Climate Paper Most Widely Covered By The Media In 2018 Was Actually A Call For Global Socialism)

Jakobshavn is “arguably the most important Greenland glacier because it discharges the most ice in the northern hemisphere. For all of Greenland, it is king,” said Box, who was not part of the study. The lead authors of the Nature Geoscience study claimed the natural cyclical cooling of North Atlantic waters was likely the catalyst for the reversal. They also say the phenomena is probably temporary.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/03/25/nasa-study-one-of-the-fastest-shrinking-greenland-glaciers-is-growing-again/

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Rockland County to Declare Measles State of Emergency; To Ban Unvaccinated Minors From Public Places

Rockland County will declare a countywide State of Emergency relating to the ongoing measles outbreak Tuesday afternoon.

Effective at the stroke of midnight, Wednesday, anyone who is under 18 years of age and unvaccinated against the measles will be barred from public places until this declaration expires in 30 days or until they receive the MMR vaccination.

As of last Thursday, there are 151 confirmed reported cases of measles in the county, according to Rockland County.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Rockland-County-State-Emergency-Measles-507672921.html?ff