Spain orders Google to delete citizens' data from search engine results

Disgusting idiotic court system. If you're arrested guess what, it's public record. The fact that you can find that online is perfectly legitimate and frankly if you don't want people to know about it, don't do it.

Props to Spain. The examples from the article are interesting: "In one case a domestic violence victim discovered that her address could be found through Google, whilst one middle aged woman was able to find information about her arrest as a student through the search engine [...]." I have a hard time understanding why G wasn't willing to remove a DV victim's address -- forcing the government to act to remove her information from their search engine is pretty appalling. Of course, Google's position is you should just change your name [1], which is evil.

I'm not sure how we're going to evolve as a society in this brave new world where every bit of everything people do hits the net forever in easily searchable and discoverable formats, but it seems like people deserve a bit of forgetting and shouldn't have potentially stupid stuff they've done as a teen follow them all the way to middle age. I personally had to call a friend at 3 in the morning who decided to post an old picture of me w/ a bong and tag it with my name (!!!). I don't care if people know that I occasionally smoke pot, but I don't need it to be one of the top search results for my name.

[1] http://socialtimes.com/google-change-your-name_b20474

This is madness.