In 2010, the U.K. newspaper The Guardian wrote a series of articles about Dougie McDonald, a referee who resigned after lying about why he imposed a penalty in a soccer match. Until recently, European residents who conducted Google searches for McDonald's name were shown links to those articles. No longer. As of today, the links have vanished from Google's European search results pages. That's thanks to a European court, which ruled in May that individuals have the right to be "forgotten" by search engines. The company reportedly has since received 50,000 requests to remove articles that cast the subjects in …

The net neutrality rules currently under consideration by the Federal Communications Commission would imperil companies offering online education, as well as their graduates, tech startups argue in new FCC filings. The startups -- CodeCombat, General Assembly, Codeacademy, and Open Curriculum -- warn that they might not be able to offer the same kinds of interactive educational services as at present, if the FCC allows Internet service providers to charge content companies for speedier delivery.