Policy Observatory

Google should not apply 'right to be forgotten' on .com domain, advisory council says

Fri 6 Feb 2015, 14:20

An advisory council put together by Google found that the search engine should only apply the so-called “right to be forgotten” to European Union search domains and not to its international .com domain, which is contrary to what EU privacy regulators want the search engine to do.

Delisting search results only on EU domains is one of the recommendations in a 44-page report released on Friday by the council, whose eight members all volunteered their time.

Google convened the council to advise it on implementing a decision made by the Court of Justice of the European Union in May last year, which gave EU citizens the right to compel search engines to remove search results in Europe for queries that include their names if the results are irrelevant or excessive.

Tags: right to be forgotten, advisory council, Google vs Spain, data protection, URL delisting, search results, CJEU decision, privacy

CNIL orders Google to comply to the CJEU decision on delisting personal data from searches

Mon 22 Jun 2015, 23:20

The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) ordered Google to comply with the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the so called "right to be forgotten".

Following the assessment of the complaints received, the CNIL has requested Google to carry out the delisting of several results specifying that the delisting should be effective on whole search engine, irrespective of the extension used.

The President of the CNIL has put Google on notice to proceed, within a period of fifteen (15) days, to the requested delisting on the whole data processing and thus on all extensions of the search engine.

Tags: search results, Google, notice, right to be forgotten, CJEU decision, delisting, privacy, data protection, France, CNIL

Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from global searches

Thu 29 Jun 2017, 11:41

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a B.C. court ruling that ordered Google to remove the website of a company from its global search results.

Tags: freedom of expression, de-indexing, website removal, Google, search results, Canada, court decision, injunction

Google right to be forgotten spat returns to Europe’s top court

Thu 20 Jul 2017, 14:00

Google's dispute with France's privacy watchdog over a call to apply "right to be forgotten" rules globally to some Web links will be weighed by Europe's top court.

Tags: personal data, Google, search results, CNIL, right to be forgotten, CJEU

Spanish Court recognizes an individual's right to be forgotten against Google

Tue 28 Nov 2017, 14:15

Spanish Audiencia Nacional Court has supported a resolution from the Data Protection Agency mandating Google to take the necessary measures to avoid the name of an individual to appear in the search results linked to a resolution from ten years ago.

Tags: search results, privacy, Data Protection Authority, resolution, right to be forgotten