We’ve blogged before on the right to be forgotten including our original blog on the European Court of Justice Ruling in May here, our report from the Google Advisory Council meeting in October here and our blog on the European Data Protection Commissioner’s Guidelines in November here. The right to be forgotten is back in […]
July 21, 2015 “Right to be forgotten” in Russian data protection law has passed all stages of approval Dear Sir or Madam, This letter is to inform you that on July 14, 2015 Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, has signed the law on implementation of the “right to be forgotten” (hereinafter the […]
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 […]
On June 12, 2015 the French Data protection Authority CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Information et des Liberté) has ordered Google to process requests to be forgotten on all extension of its websites, not only “fr”. The CNIL has specified that this formal notice is not a sanction but that Google must comply within the fifteen days or […]
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 […]
Google issued its report on the requests for removal pursuant to the “right to be forgotten”. Period considered: May 29, 2014 to current. Here are some interesting points: Google received almost 200,000 requests “to be forgotten”, evaluated almost 700,000 urls and removed the 59.8% of urls. French are those who requested to be forgotten the […]
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 […]
The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a […]
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The recent decision of the European Court of Justice in Google Spain SL v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos is a good opportunity to compare the obligation of search engines with reference to the search results in Europe and United States. The ruling of May 13, 2014, holds that all European citizens have a “right to […]