{"id":17907,"date":"2022-09-18T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legalblog.ie\/?p=17907"},"modified":"2022-09-25T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T07:54:13","slug":"digitally-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digitally-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitally Forgotten [EU]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_63 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" 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href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digitally-forgotten\/#Right_to_be_forgotten_on_the_Internet\" title=\"Right to be forgotten on the Internet\">Right to be forgotten on the Internet<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digitally-forgotten\/#Key_Points\" title=\"Key Points\">Key Points<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digitally-forgotten\/#Context\" title=\"Context\">Context<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/digitally-forgotten\/#MAIN_DOCUMENTS\" title=\"MAIN DOCUMENTS\">MAIN DOCUMENTS<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Right_to_be_forgotten_on_the_Internet\"><\/span>Right to be forgotten on the Internet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Reference for a preliminary ruling \u2013 Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data \u2013 Territorial scope of the right to de-referencing \u2013 Case C-507\/17 (2019)<\/p>\n<p>Reference for a preliminary ruling \u2013 Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the processing of data contained on websites \u2013 Extent of that operator\u2019s obligations and of the data subject\u2019s rights \u2013 Case C-131\/12 (2014)<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling clarified the interpretation of Directive 95\/46\/EC as follows.<\/p>\n<p>Displaying search engine results constitutes processing of personal data.<br \/>\nThe search engine operator has a responsibility to remove links to personal information from search results in specific circumstances, effectively introducing the right to be forgotten.<br \/>\nThe 2019 CJEU ruling clarified the geographical scope of its earlier decision, in the new context of Regulation (EU) 2016\/679 (the general data protection regulation), which modernised and unified data protection rules across the European Union (EU) and repealed Directive 95\/46\/EC.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_Points\"><\/span>Key Points<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v Agencia Espa\u00f1ola de Protecci\u00f3n de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja Gonz\u00e1lez (2014)<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Mario Costeja Gonz\u00e1lez, a Spanish citizen, asked Google to remove or conceal in search results the personal data concerning social security debts printed in the newspaper La Vanguardia in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained the matter had been resolved several years earlier and that reference to them had become irrelevant.<br \/>\nThe Court found that an internet search engine operator is responsible for processing the personal data that appear on web pages published by other sources and must comply with legislation that protects individuals in this regard (Directive 95\/46\/EC).<\/p>\n<p>The Court ruled that the search engine operator could, in some circumstances, be obliged to remove links to certain web pages from the list of results that appear when a search is carried out for a particular name (this is known as the right to be forgotten or \u2018de-referencing\u2019), where the information is considered to be inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant, no longer relevant or excessive for the purposes of data processing, but not simply because it is inconvenient to the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Google LLC v Commission nationale de l\u2019informatique et des libert\u00e9s (CNIL) (2019)<\/p>\n<p>In the action brought by Google against the French data protection authority, the CJEU was asked to rule on the geographical scope of application of the right to be forgotten.<br \/>\nIn 2016, the French regulator fined Google \u20ac100,000 for refusing to apply the right to be forgotten worldwide. It further ordered the company to apply the right to be forgotten to all Google domain names, including google.com. In response, Google maintained that the French data protection authority only had the power to order that it apply to the French google.fr domain.<br \/>\nI<\/p>\n<p>n its ruling, the Court held that the right to be forgotten does not apply to links displayed in every version of a search engine worldwide, but applies to search engines with domain names associated with EU Member States \u2013 i.e. not just google.fr, but also google.it, google.de, google.nl, etc.<br \/>\nSearch engine operators are also required to use, where necessary, measures that \u2018effectively prevent or, at the very least, seriously discourage\u2019 internet users from accessing de-referenced material when searching by name from a Member State.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Context\"><\/span>Context<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For further information, see:<\/p>\n<p>Data protection (European Commission)<br \/>\n\u2018Right to be forgotten\u2019 (GDPR.eu).<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"MAIN_DOCUMENTS\"><\/span>MAIN DOCUMENTS<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 24 September 2019 \u2013 Google LLC, successor in law to Google Inc. v Commission nationale de l\u2019informatique et des libert\u00e9s (CNIL) \u2013 Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d\u2019\u00c9tat \u2013 Reference for a preliminary ruling \u2013 Personal data \u2013 Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of such data \u2013 Directive 95\/46\/EC \u2013 Regulation (EU) 2016\/679 \u2013 Internet search engines \u2013 Processing of data on web pages \u2013 Territorial scope of the right to de-referencing \u2013 Case C-507\/17.<\/p>\n<p>Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber), 13 May 2014 \u2013 Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v Agencia Espa\u00f1ola de Protecci\u00f3n de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja Gonz\u00e1lez \u2013 Request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Nacional \u2013 Personal data \u2013 Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of such data \u2013 Directive 95\/46\/EC \u2013 Articles 2, 4, 12 and 14 \u2013 Material and territorial scope \u2013 Internet search engines \u2013 Processing of data contained on websites \u2013 Searching for, indexing and storage of such data \u2013 Responsibility of the operator of the search engine \u2013 Establishment on the territory of a Member State \u2013 Extent of that operator\u2019s obligations and of the data subject\u2019s rights \u2013 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union \u2013 Articles 7 and 8 \u2013 Case C 131\/12.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED DOCUMENTS<br \/>\nRegulation (EU) 2016\/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95\/46\/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, pp. 1\u201388).<\/p>\n<p>Successive amendments to Regulation (EU) 2016\/679 have been incorporated in the original text. This consolidated version is of documentary value only.<\/p>\n<p>Directive 95\/46\/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (OJ L 281, 23.11.1995, pp. 31\u201350).<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-17907\" data-postid=\"17907\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-17907 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right to be forgotten on the Internet Reference for a preliminary ruling \u2013 Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data \u2013 Territorial scope of the right to de-referencing \u2013 Case C-507\/17 (2019) Reference for a preliminary ruling \u2013 Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18676,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions\/18676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}