Google must remove details of a convicted murderer from its search results in Europe following a German court ruling, it emerged last week.
Tag Archives: European Court of Justice
Social media platforms can be forced to delete illegal content worldwide
The EU’s top court ruled that platforms like Facebook can be ordered to proactively seek out and delete all copies of illegal content.
Pirates! Don’t blame your illegal file sharing on family members
Stop blaming your piracy on your mum. You can no longer avoid liability by saying that a family member had access to your connection.
Google slip reveals why people exercise their “right to be forgotten”
As data reveals only 5% of right to be forgotten requests come from high profile figures and criminals, can we say the ruling has been a success?
Do Americans have the same right as Europeans to be “forgotten” by Google?
Europeans have the right to request the removal of links in search engine results, thanks to a May 2014 court ruling, but should Americans also have the “right to be forgotten”? Consumer Watchdog says “Yes, definitely”.
12,000 Europeans ask Google to forget them
Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google’s search results. Will those numbers continue, or is there just a pent-up demand of people wanting to blip their existence off the internet? 