Don't applaud Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten' ruling against Google: Blodget
Is an old child-molestation charge irrelevant? If it was an unfair charge that is still creating reputation problems for the accused individual many years later, then, yes, it might be considered irrelevant (and harmful). But what if the charge was justified and the accused child-molester moves into the house next door to your family? If there are public records or news stories out there that might put you on alert. wouldn't you want to be able to find them — even if your new neighbor, for obvious reasons, wanted them gone?