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June 29, 2022

Rest of World: Argentina’s Supreme Court backs Google, says “right to be forgotten” can infringe on freedom of information

Rest of World: Argentina’s Supreme Court backs Google, says “right to be forgotten” can infringe on freedom of information. “The Argentine Supreme Court denied celebrity Natalia Denegri’s petition to have content about a scandal she was involved in more than 25 years ago removed from search engines on Tuesday. It is the first ruling by a Supreme Court in Latin America on the ‘right to be forgotten,’ which allows the public to control their online history.”

March 10, 2022

Courthouse News Service: European rights court grapples with ‘right to be forgotten’

Courthouse News Service: European rights court grapples with ‘right to be forgotten’. “In 2021, the European Court of Human Rights upheld a ruling by a Belgian court which ordered the newspaper to remove the name of a man who killed two people in a car crash in 1994. Le Soir publisher Patrick Hurbain has been fighting the order for years, making a final appeal before the Strasbourg-based rights court’s Grand Chamber on Wednesday. The case has pitted privacy advocates against media defenders in a legal battle that has lasted more than a decade. Following a 2012 complaint by the driver who caused the car accident, the Belgian high court ordered the country’s top French-language newspaper to anonymize its online archive.”

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November 9, 2021

The Irish News: Irish News among media organisations to have articles pulled by Google ‘at request of Sean Quinn family’

The Irish News: Irish News among media organisations to have articles pulled by Google ‘at request of Sean Quinn family’. “DOZENS of newspaper articles – including Irish News coverage – about ex-billionaire Seán Quinn and his family have been `delisted’ by search engine Google. The removal of articles – including court coverage of how his adult children “used the Quinn Group as ‘their personal bank’ (removing) €1.95 billion” and a lavish wedding with a €100,000 cake – were deleted by the web giant for the family under the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ law.”

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October 5, 2021

Into Oblivion: How news outlets are handling the right to be forgotten (Columbia Journalism Review)

Columbia Journalism Review: Into Oblivion: How news outlets are handling the right to be forgotten. “Technically speaking, the ‘right to be forgotten’ does not exist. In EU law, it is encoded as a Right to Erasure, affording individuals the prerogative to request that publishers delete or de-index their data from the internet, provided that the information is no longer relevant or in the public interest.”

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July 14, 2020

BNN Bloomberg: Google Gets Record Belgian Privacy Fine Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’

BNN Bloomberg: Google Gets Record Belgian Privacy Fine Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’. “Google was fined a record 600,000 euros ($681,400) by Belgium’s data protection authority for failing to delete links regulators deemed harmful to a person’s reputation under the European Union’s right to be forgotten.”

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April 4, 2020

Japan Times: French court cancels fine on Google over right to be forgotten

Japan Times: French court cancels fine on Google over right to be forgotten. “Google won a battle over the right to be forgotten after France’s top administrative court canceled a fine of €100,000 ($111,000) for failing to remove contentious search results globally.”

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March 12, 2020

European Data Protection Board: The Swedish Data Protection Authority imposes administrative fine on Google

European Data Protection Board: The Swedish Data Protection Authority imposes administrative fine on Google. “The Swedish Data Protection Authority imposes a fine of 75 million Swedish kronor (approximately 7 million euro) on Google for failure to comply with the GDPR. Google as a search engine operator has not fulfilled its obligations in respect of the right to request delisting.” 7 million euro is roughly $7.8 million USD.

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March 7, 2020

Japan Times: Spanish ruling on ‘right to be forgotten’ says Google must put man’s acquittal at top of search results

Japan Times: Spanish ruling on ‘right to be forgotten’ says Google must put man’s acquittal at top of search results. “A Spanish court has partially accepted Google’s appeal against a ruling that ordered it to erase news articles about a man accused of sexual abuse, but the new judgement said the company had to display the man’s acquittal at the top of any search results.”

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December 12, 2019

Japan Times: Japanese court orders Google to erase search results on man’s arrest

Japan Times: Japanese court orders Google to erase search results on man’s arrest. “A court ordered Google Inc. on Thursday to erase news search results about an arrest of a man who claimed that showing information about the case that was later dropped was an invasion of privacy.”

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November 28, 2019

Deutsche Welle: Germany’s top court upholds murderer’s right to be forgotten

Deutsche Welle: Germany’s top court upholds murderer’s right to be forgotten. “Germany’s Constitutional Court has upheld the right of a man convicted of murder in 1982 to have his name removed from the internet. The man’s full name appeared in the online archive of a major news magazine.”

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September 26, 2019

BetaNews: Court rules Google need only apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ in Europe, not worldwide

BetaNews: Court rules Google need only apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ in Europe, not worldwide. “In a case between Google and Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL ) — a French privacy regulator — the court ruled that Google need only remove links from search results within Europe.”

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September 21, 2019

Devdiscourse: Europe’s top court to rule on ‘right to be forgotten’ Google case on Sept. 24

Devdiscourse: Europe’s top court to rule on ‘right to be forgotten’ Google case on Sept. 24. “Europe’s top court will rule on Sept. 24 whether Alphabet Inc unit Google must remove links to sensitive personal data worldwide or in Europe only in a case that pits privacy rights against the right of free speech.”

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August 2, 2019

Irish Legal News: Lawyers claim man’s legal entitlement to anonymity breached by Google

Irish Legal News: Lawyers claim man’s legal entitlement to anonymity breached by Google. “Lawyers for a man acquitted of rape last year have told a court that his legal entitlement to anonymity is being breached by Google search results of his name.”

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May 17, 2019

Times of Malta: 112 court sentences ‘vanish’ from public database

Times of Malta: 112 court sentences ‘vanish’ from public database. “A total of 112 court sentences were, so far, withdrawn by the government from the public online database of the courts and other requests are being considered in view of the ‘right’ to be forgotten, the Times of Malta is informed.”

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April 30, 2019

The ChronicleHerald: Federal Court sidesteps constitutional questions — for now — in Google ‘right to be forgotten’ case

The ChronicleHerald: Federal Court sidesteps constitutional questions — for now — in Google ‘right to be forgotten’ case. “Google LLC was handed a setback this month in a case over the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ when a Federal Court adjudicator ruled that it won’t delve into the thorny constitutional questions wrapped up in the matter. Instead, the Federal Court will judge two specific points related to Canada’s privacy law, in a reference case brought forward by federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien.”

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Rest of World: Argentina’s Supreme Court backs Google, says “right to be forgotten” can infringe on freedom of information

Courthouse News Service: European rights court grapples with ‘right to be forgotten’

The Irish News: Irish News among media organisations to have articles pulled by Google ‘at request of Sean Quinn family’

Into Oblivion: How news outlets are handling the right to be forgotten (Columbia Journalism Review)

BNN Bloomberg: Google Gets Record Belgian Privacy Fine Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’

Japan Times: French court cancels fine on Google over right to be forgotten

Japan Times: Spanish ruling on ‘right to be forgotten’ says Google must put man’s acquittal at top of search results

Japan Times: Japanese court orders Google to erase search results on man’s arrest

Deutsche Welle: Germany’s top court upholds murderer’s right to be forgotten

BetaNews: Court rules Google need only apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ in Europe, not worldwide

Devdiscourse: Europe’s top court to rule on ‘right to be forgotten’ Google case on Sept. 24

Irish Legal News: Lawyers claim man’s legal entitlement to anonymity breached by Google

Times of Malta: 112 court sentences ‘vanish’ from public database

The ChronicleHerald: Federal Court sidesteps constitutional questions — for now — in Google ‘right to be forgotten’ case

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