Consumer Watchdog calls on Google to extend right to be forgotten to U.S. users.
Consumer Watchdog urged Google to extend the European right to be forgotten entitlement to users in the U.S. "There needs to be a balance between the individual's privacy and public's right to know in making a decision to remove a…
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link," Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project Director John Simpson said in a letter to Google executives Eric Schmidt and Larry Page (http://bit.ly/ZYcwor). Simpson credited Google's findings in its latest transparency report and with demonstrating its ability "to strike an appropriate balance between an individual's privacy and the public's right to know." Google is making the entitlement work for its users in Europe, "but that is because you must under the law," he said. The company had no comment.