Europe court ruling reboots Web privacy rules for Google, others

Pamela Samuelson quoted in Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2014

“EU data protection rules are much stricter and broader in scope than U.S. privacy rules,” said Pamela Samuelson, a professor at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. “So the ruling is not all that surprising. But it obviously complicates the task for search engines of giving folks access to content that’s lawful in most jurisdictions.”