Right To Be Forgotten
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What Is The “Right To Be Forgotten”?
In May 2014, the European Court Of Justice ruled that EU citizens have a “Right To Be Forgotten,” that they could request that search engines remove links to pages deemed private, even if the pages themselves remain on the internet. Our explainer post has more background about this: The Myths & Realities Of How Of The EU’s New “Right To Be Forgotten” In Google Works
As of June 2014, Google has established a form where people can request removals, as our story explains: How Google’s New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works. Bing has its own form; Yahoo has said plans for removal are in development.
Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case in UK High Court
Decision likely to spark other appeals to courts by those denied de-listing....
German court: Google has no ‘duty to inspect’ websites for illegal content before displaying
The court held that Google can't be held liable before being notified of a 'clearly recognizable violation' of individual rights....
Law and reputation firms generate 21% of Right to Be Forgotten delistings, says Google
New report from Google digs into three years' worth of data on removal requests and exposes the delisting criteria....
Google fighting local battles over global control of its index in Canada, France
Regulators and courts seek to assert authority over global search results rather than limit decisions to their own countries....
Top European court to decide if Google needs to purge disputed links from global index
French regulators have argued that the "right to be forgotten" is not fully enforceable unless content is removed worldwide....
Two major changes potentially coming to EU’s Right to Be Forgotten with global implications
Authorities in France considering automatic delisting for "sensitive personal data" and forcing global index removal....
Google wins ‘right to be forgotten’ case in Japanese high court
Court rules that search results are a form of speech entitled to protection....
Bing to censor Bing.com in the EU for Right To Be Forgotten searches
According to the announcement, Bing's updated RTBF policy for the EU will use location-based signals to remove relevant URLs on all versions of...
Google appeals French order to censor Right-to-Be-Forgotten links globally
Google is taking its case to France's highest administrative...
Report: 2 years in, 75 percent of Right to Be Forgotten asks denied by Google
More than 50 percent of requests come from Germany and the UK....
French privacy regulator fines Google for not removing RTBF links outside of Europe
CNIL in France refuses to compromise on demand that Google remove all Right to Be Forgotten content from its entire index....
Google Agrees To Complicated Worldwide “Right To Be Forgotten” Censorship Plan
Google will ensure those within a country where a RTBF request was granted cannot find censored content, regardless of what Google edition they...
Google To Remove Right-To-Be-Forgotten Links Worldwide, For Searchers In European Countries
Links will no longer show for those in the particular country where a RTBF request was made, regardless of the Google edition they...
Japan Courts Order Removal Of Criminal Activity From Search As Privacy Violation
Suggesting that there may soon be a European-style “Right to be Forgotten” in Japan, two Japanese courts recently ordered Yahoo...
Right To Be Forgotten: French Argue They Have Authority To Regulate Google Globally
Setting up a potential international “conflict of laws” dispute, France’s privacy regulator (CNIL) rejected Google’s...
UK Regulator To Google: You Must De-Index Follow-Up Stories About Right To Be Forgotten Subjects
The European “hide me, find me” SEO game that is the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) continues to twist and turn. The latest twist is...
Google Fights France To Prevent Globalization Of The Right-to-Be-Forgotten
Google has formally appealed France’s data protection authority’s order that Google apply Right-to-Be-Forgotten (RTBF) removals to...
UK Paper Argues Right To Be Forgotten Being Abused In Some Cases
While the majority of Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) take-down requests in Europe do not seek to conceal criminal misdeeds, the UK-based Daily...
Consumer Group Petitions FTC To Bring Europe’s Right-To-Be-Forgotten To US
Consumer Watchdog argues values behind RTBF are already part of US...
Russian Parliament Approves “Right To Be Forgotten” In Search Engines
If signed by President Vladimir Putin, law goes into effect in 2016, allows for broader removals than with the EU's similar...
