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NY's 'Right To Be Forgotten' Bill Needs Narrower Focus

By Allison Grande (March 28, 2017, 6:54 PM EDT) -- New York lawmakers are weighing novel legislation that would force online publishers such as Google to delete information flagged as inaccurate or irrelevant. But the bill's failure to account for First Amendment rights makes it unlikely that the sweeping proposal will go very far, attorneys say. 

The Right to Be Forgotten Act, introduced on Feb. 8 by State Assemblyman David I. Weprin, seeks to empower consumers to demand that search engines, publishers and similar online players remove information that individuals have identified as being "inaccurate, irrelevant, inadequate or excessive" within 30 days.

However, the proposal — the first expansive online privacy...

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