In the case of X v Google France and Google Inc (Judgment of 13 May 2016), the Tribunal de grand instance de Paris ordered Google Inc to remove a link to a URL of a blog accusing the applicant of being linked to a sex scandal. Continue reading
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The decision in Google Spain gave data subjects the “right to delist” – to require search engines to remove links to personal data which was “inadequate, irrelevant or excessive”. Google’s transparency report shows that it has received 53,913 removal requests relating to 202,846 URLs from individuals with relationships to the UK. It has removed a total of 78,704 URLs or 38.8%. Continue reading
It is now just over two years since the Court of Justice of the European Union first ruled that Google was a data controller and that the principles of EU Directive 95/46/EC (‘the Data Protection Directive’), and the various national legislation that implement them, applied to its search results. Continue reading
The right to be forgotten – which can be best described as a right to be delisted – was recognized by the CJEU on the assumption that the search engine operator, Google Inc., is a data controller of the personal data included in the search results. Continue reading
Starting this week, Google will implement “right to be forgotten” requests on all Google search engines (including Google.com) accessed from the country of the person making the request. This change will be implemented retrospectively to all delisting carried out under the Google Spain ruling. Continue reading
On 15 October 2015, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down judgment in the “right to be forgotten” case of A & B v Ediciones El Pais SL [pdf](in Spanish). Continue reading
The Information Commissioner’s office has, since May 2014, dealt with 441 cases and has required Google to de-list in 20%. It has, over this period, issued one enforcement notice against Google. Continue reading
The French data protection authority, the CNIL, has dismissed an internal administrative appeal by Google Inc against its ruling that the decision in Google Spain requires delisting on all versions of the search engine, including google.com. Continue reading
The UK’s data privacy watchdog has waded into the debate over the enforcement of the right to be forgotten in Europe. The Information Commissioner’s Office issued a notice to Google to remove from its search results newspaper articles that discussed details from older articles that had themselves been subject to a successful right to be forgotten request. Continue reading
One of the most impactful events in global free expression jurisprudence development in 2014 was the the European Court of Justice Google Spain SL, Google v Agencia Espanola de Proteccion (2014) (“González”) decision by on the so-called “right to be forgotten”, more accurately referred to as the “right to be de-indexed”. Continue reading
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