Right to be forgotten and Google – update

UPDATE: On September 24, 2019, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of Google after the company appealed. The Court found that Google is not forced to censor its search results on a global scale and is only required to remove outdated or irrelevant links on its European sites. The ruling stated, “Currently, there […]

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Advocate general suggest to limit global de-listing approach related to right to be forgotten

On January 10, 2018, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued his opinion in the case of Google v. CNIL (Case C-507/17). In the opinion, the Advocate General stresses that the right to be forgotten must be balanced against other fundamental rights, such as the legitimate public […]

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Conseil d’Etat requests preliminary ruling from CJEU on Right to be Forgotten

The right to be forgotten has been judicially recognized by the CJEU with the Google Spain judgment  (Case C-131/12). According to the judgement, Europeans have the right to disappear from search engine’s results under certain conditions. The National Commission of Information Technologies and Liberties (CNIL), Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, rejected some complaints […]

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The Public’s Right to know trumps right to be forgotten in case of major crimes, Italian DPA decides

On October 6, 2016, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali) (“Italian DPA”)  issued an order denying the right to be forgotten to those involved in major crimes. A former city counselor involved in an investigation for corruption and fraud requested a de-indexation of some related articles. The events occurred […]

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Russia: right to be forgotten in force

On January 1, 2016, the law on implementation of the “Right to be forgotten” came into force. More information is available at http://www.technethics.com… For more information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Follow us on& Like us on    

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An update from Google on the “right to be forgotten” in Europe

  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 […]

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French DPA confirms Google must apply right to be forgotten on all its domain extensions

On September 21, 2015, the French Data protection Authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Information et des Libertés) rejected Google’s informal appeal against the formal notice (see here) requesting it to apply delisting on all the search engine’s domain names, not only “fr” but also  .es; .co.uk; .com, etc. The CNIL noted that if the right to be forgotten is […]

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As part of the “right to be forgotten”, Google must also delist the news about delisting, UK privacy authority says

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 […]

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