Google wins EU case to limit the right to be forgotten.

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Google has won a case against a French regulator that wanted the search engine to de-list links about EU citizens across all its sites globally.

Europe’s top court has told Google it does not have to make the right to be forgotten available worldwide.

The measure already allows citizens in EU countries to demand any results about them considered “inadequate, irrelevant or … excessive” to be removed if the search is carried out in an EU country. Even though these web pages would still exist, delisting from a search engine makes them harder for people to find.

What is the right to be forgotten?
The right to be forgotten came into force in 2014, after Spanish national Mario Costeja González sought to remove out-of-date links relating to unsettled debts that had since been settled.

Represented in Articles 17 and 19 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the right to be forgotten gives individuals the right to have their data erased by data controllers under specific grounds. For example, in cases where the personal data collected or processed is no longer necessary, or where consent is withdrawn.



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