Europe is facing the challenges of implementing the European Court of Justice’s recent decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”. Following the decision, search engines were submerged by requests for removal (see article) and were left with the difficult task of balancing the public right to information and the private […]
Datagate, new technologies, customers profiling and “big data”, user consent, data protection in non-EU countries, damage to reputation, right to be forgotten, web fury, social media, web violence and cyberbullying – these are the privacy hot issues according to the President of the Italian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”). In September 2014, Mr. Antonello Soro, DPA President, […]
Letter by Google in response to Article 29WP questionnaire regarding the implementation of the ECJ judgment on the “right to be forgotten” Google receive more than 91,000 removal requests involving more than 328,000 URLs. The majority of requests have been made under French law (around 17,500), follows Germany and the UK. Google removed around 53% […]