Google claims in the lawsuit regarding 'Right to be forgotten (RTBF)'


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Vladimir Fedotov

In a lawsuit between Google and the French authorities concerning ' Right to be forgotten (RTBF) ', the European Court of Justice has ruled that the subject of the right is 'search within the EU'. This is the form in which Google's claims were accepted.

The operator of a search engine is not required to carry out a de-referencing on all versions of its search engine
(PDF file) https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2019-09/cp190112en.pdf



Google wins fight to restrict right-to-be-forgotten ruling to EU search engines | VentureBeat

https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/24/google-wins-fight-to-restrict-right-to-be-forgotten-ruling-to-eu-search-engines/

With regard to RTBF, in May 2014, the European Court of Justice decided that `` persons can request Google to delete search results regarding past personal information that has become unsuitable over time, '' All EU member versions of Google now remove the requested page from the index.

What is the “right to be forgotten” that is the basis for requesting Google to delete search results? -GIGAZINE


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However, in 2015, the French “ National Committee on Information Processing and Freedom (CNIL) ” demanded that the scope of RTBF be expanded to Google worldwide.

In 2016, the French authorities imposed a fine of $ 110,000 (about 11.8 million yen) for Google's failure to comply with the request, but Google appealed this and the dispute was brought to the European Court of Justice It was. With this ruling, Google no longer needs to extend RTBF beyond the EU.

In this case, Microsoft, which has been fighting over the deletion of indexes in Europe as well as the Wikimedia Foundation that operates Wikipedia, also supports Google. You should not try to control what information you can access. '

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