According to Italia Oggi, in 2016 60% of the received request to be forgotten from search results has been granted. The percentage concerns the request to be removed from search results after the European Court of Justice issued its famous “right-to-be-forgotten” decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12. According to the source, the percentage consider the cases where the Garante […]
On February 16, 2016, Article 29 Working Party (WP29) issued an update on Opinion 8/2010 on applicable law. The update provides explanations concerning the applicable law in light of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgement’s in Google Spain (or Costeja case, C-131/12). The ruling of May 13, 2015 held that EU data subjects have a right […]
In November 2015, Google published a report accounting for European privacy requests for search removals after the European Court of Justice issued its famous “right-to-be-forgotten” decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12, holding that data subjects have a right to obtain the delisting of links appearing in the search results based on their name. According to the document, Google evaluated the […]
On September 23, Advocate General Yves Bot at the European Court of Justice (“AG”) released his Opinion in C-362/14 (Maximilian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner). Waiting for the decision of the European Court of Justice – expected on October 6 – and keeping in mind that the Court follows the Advocate General’s opinions 80% of […]
On September 23, Advocate General Yves Bot at the European Court of Justice (“AG”) released his Opinion in C-362/14 (Maximilian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner). Waiting for the decision of the European Court of Justice – expected on October 6 – and keeping in mind that the Court follows the Advocate General’s opinions 80% of […]
On August 18, 2015, the UK Information Commissioner Office (“ICO”) issued an enforcement notice against Google because it contravened the first and the third data protection principles by referencing to an article detailing the delisting of a link that followed a “request to be forgotten”. According to the ICO, Google contravened the third data protection […]
On June 18, 2015, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) released a press statement to share the results of a survey launched to evaluate the EU practice regarding de-listing requests. A little more than one year ago the European Court of Justice (“ECJ) issued its famous”right-to-be-forgotten”decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12, holding that data subjects have […]
After WP29 issued the guidelines to help authorities to deal with appeals resulting from search engines’ refusal to “de-list” (see here), the Italian Data Protection Authority is facing the challenges of implementing the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”. As of February 2015, the Italian Data Protection Authority received around 10 appeals against search engines refusal to […]
On November 26, 2014, Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) published the Guidelines for the implementation of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ)’s recent decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12 (“right to be forgotten” decision), holding that data subjects have a right to obtain the de-listing of links appearing in the search results based on a person’s name. Most […]
The author discusses the worldwide access via search engines to online information and assesses the long-term effects of the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”: “In the light of the above, the future EU regulation should consider the peculiar nature of search engines as data controllers. It should introduce an ad hoc legal provision, which […]