• TechDirt, Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3:37 PM

A proposed bill in New York would require online search engines and publishers to remove information about people at their request, if the information is "inaccurate", "irrelevant", "inadequate" or "excessive." The bill defines those terms as content that's "no longer material to current public debate or discourse, especially when considered in light of the financial, reputational and/or demonstrable other harm that the information, article or other content is causing to the requester's professional, financial, reputational or other interest." The law also has an exception for information related to felonies, legal matters relating to violence, or "a matter that is of significant current public interest, and as to which the requester's role with regard to the matter is central and substantial."

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