Too bad. I was hoping the EU would use its economic might to apply pressure against surveillance capitalism. Sometimes when our host nations fail us our best option is to hope for global pressure.
My issue with "right to be forgotten" is with the principle, not the implementation. It violates not only freedom of speech, but freedom of private communication. Let's look at what it's really involved with: I send an encrypted request asking a company for some information. That company wants to reply (also encrypted) with that information. This law forbids them from doing so. The company might be a megacorp like Google, but (depending on what I'm searching for) it might be a smaller service run by an enthusiast.
This law should really be called, "The right to stop other people saying true things about me to people who request that information."
