Spain’s data protection agency ordered Google to stop indexing contested citizen links

Evidence

The Spanish Data Protection Agency had chosen to champion the claims of ninety ordinary citizens who, like the Montes family, were determined to preserve inherited meaning for a world bent on change at the speed of light. In the name of “the right to be forgotten,” the Spaniards had stepped into the bullring brandishing red capes, resolved to master the fiercest bull of all: Google, the juggernaut of surveillance capitalism. When the agency ordered the internet firm to stop indexing the contested links of these ninety individuals, the bull received one of its first and most significant blows. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 180

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘right to be forgotten’ as a regulatory tool connects to the reader’s foundational understanding of digital economy governance and platform regulation.