Eric Schmidt: EU Struck Wrong Balance on 'Right to Be Forgotten'

Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman and former CEO, has weighed in on a top European Union court's "right to be forgotten" ruling, which lets consumers ask Google to remove damaging links. And as you might expect, he's not a fan of it.

“A simple way of understanding what happened here is that you have a collision between a right to be forgotten and a right to know. From Google’s perspective, that’s a balance,” Schmidt said during Google's annual shareholders meeting in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday. “Google believes, having looked at the decision which is binding, that the balance that was struck was wrong.” Read more...