The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, July 7

Privacy group files FTC complaint to push Google to extend right to be forgotten to US

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you…. After a year of ridiculing a European court’s “right to be forgotten” ruling, it seems that some Americans at least are beginning to think it’s a good idea. The ruling required search engines to exclude certain pages containing personal information from their search results on request from the people concerned. Now Consumer Watchdog has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to institute a similar right.

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