Civil libertarians, academics, and legal experts have expressed concern the "right to be forgotten" online may be duplicated in Australia after a court ruled European citizens could stop Google linking to items deemed inadequate, irrelevant or excessive. Dr Katina Michael, an associate professor at the University of Wollongong's school of information system, said Google Australia was not immune to the pressure and was under considerable pressure to respond to removal requests. "There is certainly a chance that the ECJ's ruling will be adopted here in Australia if enforced by the Australian Privacy Commissioner," she said. "Individuals want the organisation to remove all records of them, including archived data, data collected through cookies and any other interactions between the individual and the organisation," she said. "It remains to be seen whether the recommendation will be enforced in Australia, but that should not stop individuals from approaching Google if they are concerned about content online that breaches their privacy," said Dr Michael. Dr Michael said it was important not to confuse freedom of speech with the right to privacy as they were "two different things". "Journalists in credible newspapers need to continue with their investigative reporting but this has [nothing] to do with whether a citizen who is going about their everyday life has had their privacy breached by comments online in a malicious way," she said. "The internet might be changing the way we do things, but I don't buy the argument that says our privacy is dead anyway so we can now do and say whatever we want about other people."