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AMSTERDAM (AP) A European court decision will require Google to sanitize its Internet search results to protect people who can demonstrate the information unfairly tarnishes their reputation.
The landmark ruling empowers the roughly 500 million people living in 28 European Union countries to prevent Google and other search engines from listing embarrassing or illegal episodes from their past. It will also change the role that Google and its rivals play in Europe, transforming them into caretakers of personal reputations.
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What was the court's ruling?
The European Court of Justice, the closest thing the European Union has to the Supreme Court in the United States, ruled that Google and other search engines must respond to user requests seeking to remove links to personal information. Google and the other search engines, including Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing, won't necessarily have to omit all the links covered in an individual's request, but they will have to make difficult decisions about what should remain within the reach of any Web surfer. The Luxembourg-based court said an individual's right to privacy has to be weighed against the public's interest in accessing information.
How did this case come about?
The case began with a Spaniard seeking to have outdated information about himself removed from the Internet. His quest became a key test of the so-called "right to be forgotten" to have unflattering information erased after a period of time. Specifically, in 2010 Mario Costeja asked for the removal of links to a 1998 newspaper notice that his property was due to be auctioned because of an unpaid welfare debt. A Spanish privacy agency agreed to his request, but Google protested, saying it should not have to censor links to information that was legal and publicly available. A top Spanish court asked the European court for an interpretation of how European privacy law applies to search-engine results, and got a broader ruling than it had asked for.
How does change things in Europe?
The immediate impact will be on 200 cases still pending in the Spanish courts, which will now be guided by the ruling in Europe's highest court. Similar cases in other European countries are likely to be affected, too. Even more European citizens are now expected to challenge results produced alongside their names. Those complaints will create logistical headaches and ethical dilemmas for Google, which processes most of the search requests in Europe. Google said it was disappointed by the ruling and will need time to analyze its implications.
Will this change the way Google and the other search engines show personal information in the results displayed in the U.S.?
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BRUSSELS: The European Union has signed a deal for 1 billion euros in marco-financial aid to be given to Ukraine.
Part of the money will go to building up the country's political institutions to be transparent and democratic.
Jos Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, said: "We are acting like never before to deliver short, medium and long term support measures worth 11 billion euros and we have identified ways to support a political, economic and financial stability of Ukraine."
355 million euros will go on a Ukrainian state building to try to build a strong and transparent democracy. The rest of the money will be pumped into the financial sector.
But with elections less than a fortnight away, the country's main focus is on how to ensure a fair democratic process despite continuing unrest in eastern regions spurred in their opinion by Moscow.
Ukrainian interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said: "Russia is already engaged in supporting Russian lead protesters and terrorists. We urge Russia to condemn them, to urge all these so-called protesters, or really terrorists, to leave and vacate the buildings and to do everything they can stabilise the situation in Urkaine. Russia will fail to make Ukraine a failed state."
Sunday's referendum in eastern Ukraine area of Donestk is being denounced as a farce by the west and the result is not being acknowledged.
This deal may be signed but the wrangling over troublesome Russian gas supplies will continue.
All eyes now divert to the elections in Ukraine and whether Russia will try to meddle in them. If they do, the EU says it will hit Moscow with broad economic sanctions - etching an even deeper line between the two sides.
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