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Forget Me, Forget Me Not: Reconciling Two Different Paradigms Of The Right To Be Forgotten, Lawrence Siry
Forget Me, Forget Me Not: Reconciling Two Different Paradigms Of The Right To Be Forgotten, Lawrence Siry
Kentucky Law Journal
In May of 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its decision in the case of Google Spain SL v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos. This landmark decision ignited a firestorm of debate over the "right to be forgotten": the right of users to withdraw information about themselves available on the internet. With concerns about the restriction of the freedom of expression on the internet, many commentators have criticized the decision as unworkable and dangerous. Others have recognized continuity in the development of privacy and data protection jurisprudence within the European courts. Meanwhile in …
The Right To Be Forgotten: Who Decides What The World Forgets?, Patricia Sánchez Abril, Jacqueline D. Lipton
The Right To Be Forgotten: Who Decides What The World Forgets?, Patricia Sánchez Abril, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Kentucky Law Journal
In May 2014, the Court of Justice for the European Union ("CJEU") surprised the global cyber law community by holding that search engines like Google are "controllers" of the processing of personal data under the European Union Data Protection Directive. This means that they are obliged in some circumstances to remove links from search results that pertain to information that infringes on an individual's rights under the Directive. This obligation has come to be referred to as an aspect of a digital "right to be forgotten." The search results in question related to a mortgage sale of property in a …