The important judgment in the Google Spain case concerns the interpretation of Directive 95/46/EC (the Data Protection Directive) and was handed down by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice on 14 May 2014. Continue reading
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Last week’s decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case concerning proceedings brought by a Spanish national against Google (Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González) is already being widely heralded as creating ‘the right to be forgotten’. Continue reading
On 13 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its much-awaited decision in Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González. The Court held that a search engine operator is responsible for the processing of personal data which appear on web pages published by third parties. Continue reading
The EU’s data protection Directive was adopted in 1995, when the Internet was in its infancy, and most or all Internet household names did not exist. In particular, the first version of the code for Google search engines was first written the following year, and the company was officially founded in September 1998 – shortly before Member States’ deadline to implement the Directive. Continue reading
The ECJ today handed down a case in a landmark decision regarding data protection and the Internet (Case C-131/12 Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González). Continue reading
The European Court of Justice is due to hand down its long awaited judgment in Google v Spain (Case No C-131/12) at 9.30am on 13 May 2014 In this post, Professor Lorna Woods sets out the background to the decision. Continue reading
When you carry out a Google search on a company or brand you might have started to wonder – what is this new right-hand side bar that is appearing on Google? Welcome to Google’s Knowledge Graph. Continue reading
By an order made on 7 February 2014, the Conseil d’État rejected application for a stay of a decision by the French information commissioner, CNIL, imposing a fine of €150,000 for a violation of privacy law on Google and ordering it to post a notice of the fine for 48 hours on its home page. Continue reading
A recent UK High Court decision determined that the misuse of private information is a tort … Sydney media law academic Dr David Rolph looks at the ramifications for the development of a privacy law in Australia Continue reading
Fresh from the November 2013 judgment against Google in Paris Max Mosley has had further success this time in the District Court of Hamburg. The case strikes another blow at Google’s continued resistance to the idea that it should play its part in preventing unlawful images from being published by way of image search results. Continue reading
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