The EU's Justice Commissioner hits back at critics of the controversial Google case.
The EU's highest court has ruled that Google should allow people the “right to be forgotten”, and should erase “irrelevant data” on users if they request it. Google called the ruling "disappointing".
European privacy regulators have stated their intention to apply the “right to be forgotten” rule to the rest of the globe.
When Google agrees to a user’s request to be “forgotten”, it must delete the links from all search engine results, not just the European versions of it, France’s data protection regulator said on Friday.
Immediately following an EU court ruling in favour of people’s “right to be forgotten” in search results, Google has received requests from a politician and a paedophile.
Google has updated its Transparency Report for the Jun. 2013 to Dec. 2013 period, and has also simplified the user interface for the website, offering more information on data removal requests from governments.
Last year we witnessed a huge debate which you might have heard it referred to as the “right to be forgotten” debate.
In response to the whole “right to be forgotten” episode which erupted this week following an EU court ruling, Google is apparently readying an online tool to deal with link takedown requests.
Google has accidentally revealed data relating to so-called right to be forgotten requests.
Following the EU ruling on the “right to be forgotten”, Google has set up an online form to allow European citizens to request removal of “irrelevant” links from its search engine.
On Friday, when Google’s “Search removal request under European Data Protection law” form went live, the search engine received an avalanche of removal requests.
France had recently ordered the search engine giant Google to extend the people’s ‘right to be forgotten’ and allow the people to remove posts from the websites, meaning people could remove their embarrassing content from websites worldwide.
As the proposed new EU Data Protection Regulation continues its complex and long journey through the European Union's governing bodies, signs are that the legal landscape is changing.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a UK authority that aims to uphold information rights, has ordered Google to remove nine links to news stories under the ‘right to be forgotten.’
The founder of Wikipedia called the EU court’s decision on the right to be forgotten nothing less than “astonishing”.
Google is rejecting the majority of requests it receives under the EU’s controversial “right to be forgotten” ruling.
The EU's stricture to Google on the need to expunge some data has created lots of heat and light. But where does the UK government really stand, asks The Data Agency's Mark Roy?
The right-to-be-forgotten law was implemented by the European Union in May 2014, and in the first 12 months Google received 282,407 requests for information to be removed.
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