EU right to be forgotten 'wrong and unworkable'

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'Right to be forgotten' ought to be forgotten, according to Parliamentary report

The right to be forgotten - the European court ruling compelling search engines to remove links to particular online material - is wrong in principle and unworkable, a House of Lords committee has ...

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