Wall Street Journal talks to Richard Thomas on removing personal information from Google

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The Wall Street Journal

Commenting on the legal wrangle between Google and Spanish privacy regulator regarding whether personal data should be removed from the internet, Richard Thomas, a strategy adviser of the firm’s London office, agrees there should be a right to have a name removed from a social network where it was freely submitted, but not, for example, in a crime record.

A former British data privacy commissioner, Thomas brings nearly 40 years of experience working across the private and public sectors.