Belgian Court Turns "Right to Be Forgotten" Into a Black Hole

The highest appellate court in Belgium has held that the European "right to be forgotten" -- which has generally been understood to require the removal of irrelevant and outdated information from search engine results, while keeping the original online material intact -- requires a newspaper to replace the name of a man who asserted rights under the principle with an "X" in an article on his 1994 drunk driving conviction, which was expunged in 2006.