MONTREAL—Officially, anyway, there’s no way to know the identity of the man behind a recent landmark court decision against Google, which both Google and the man are now appealing. That’s because there’s a publication ban on his name, for reasons that will become apparent in a minute. In the documents, he’s referred to as “A.B.”
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