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EU: DATA SURVEILLANCE: EU court backs 'right to be forgotten': Google must amend results on request

13 May 2014

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"A European court has backed the "right to be forgotten" and said Google must delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results when a member of the public requests it. The test case ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia."

See the article: EU court backs 'right to be forgotten': Google must amend results on request (Guardian, link)

See: Full-text of Judgment (link)

And: The CJEU's Google Spain judgment: failing to balance privacy and freedom of expression (Steve Peers EU Law Analysis, link)

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