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From the document: “On 13 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union acknowledged that under existing European data protection legislation, EU citizens have the right to request internet search engines such as Google, to remove search results directly related to them. This landmark ruling has sparked a lively and timely debate on […]

For the first time after the ECJ’s decision of last May (“right to be forgotten” decision) a European court has condemned Google in a case concerning the “right to be forgotten”. On September 16, 2014, the TGI (Tribunal de Grande Instance) — court of first instance of general jurisdiction in Paris — issued a decision […]

Google is holding a series of meetings in Europe. Meetings are public and open for registration. More information here. Listen here for example to the recording of the Advisory Council’s meeting held in Rome 9 September 2014.  

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 […]

Author describes the debate over online privacy. From the article: “Don’t count on government to censor information about you online.” The full text is available at: http://online.wsj…

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% […]

The European Union is developing its “right to be forgotten”. According to the author, however “In this country, we should avoid their example. The courts are not the right place to make policy that requires a complex balancing of individual and public rights. The facts presented in one particular case are insufficient to guide a […]

According to the Washington Post the “right to be forgotten” just got real.  The newspaper reports that Google received more than 50,000 requests for removal. As ordered by the European court of justice, the company is beginning to remove content from search results. More information on the ECJ decision may be found here. Related documents […]

Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, warned ECJ’s ” ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling risks empowering repressive governments and their control of the internet”. More information at http://www.theguardian… Follow us on& Like us on    

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 48, 2014 Abstract from the article: “This article scrutinizes invasive cyber business practices and advocates passage of the proposed European Union right to erasure. The proposed regulation would prevent the indefinite storage and trade in electronic data, placing limits on the duration and purpose for which businesses could retain it. […]