Lords to question witnesses on right to be forgotten ruling

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Witnesses

Wednesday 2 July, Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster

At 10.40am

• Professor Floridi, Director of Research and Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford
• Chris Scott, Partner, or Jennie Sumpster, Senior Associate, Schillings Solicitors
• Jim Killock, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
• Neil Cameron, Director, Neil Cameron Consulting Group

At 11.40am

• Steve Wood, Head of Policy Delivery, Information Commissioner's Office 

Likely questions

• Do you agree with the Court's ruling that Google (and other search engines) can be classed as data controllers?
• The question put by the Spanish court to the Court of Justice referred to the data subject wishing to have information “consigned to oblivion”. Isn’t the true position that information removed from websites will always continue to exist, but will simply not be so easily accessible?
• The Court has ruled that the data subject’s fundamental right to privacy “as a rule” overrides the right to receive information, but that this will not be the case if there is a public interest in “the role played by the data subject in public life”. Do you agree with this order of priorities? Can it in practice be implemented?
• Do you think it is in practice possible for Google to comply with the Court’s ruling?
• What do you consider to be a ‘reasonable time’ for companies to put in place an acceptable response to the CJEU’s ruling?
• The proposed new EU Data Protection Regulation would give data subjects an even stronger ‘right to be forgotten’. Do you think the UK Government are right to oppose this?
• How do you think an acceptable balance can be achieved at EU level between the public’s right to know, and the right to privacy? 

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