Europe's highest court says people have 'the right to be forgotten.' But online, forgetting doesn't exist.

There are lots of ways to think about Tuesday's surprise European court decision, which ruled that search engines must remove unflattering Google results on an individual's request. It's a thorny legal issue, with plenty of ripples for freedom of information and the press. It's a business and logistical headache for search engines like Google, who now have to figure out how to carry out the court's ruling. Most intriguingly for our purposes, it's a conceptual puzzle, of sorts: Europe's Court of ...