{"id":18221,"date":"2014-05-13T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=18221"},"modified":"2014-05-13T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:10:48","slug":"eu-backs-right-to-be-forgotten-in-google-privacy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=18221","title":{"rendered":"EU backs ‘right to be forgotten’ in Google privacy case"},"content":{"rendered":"

A top EU court has ruled Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called “right to be forgotten”.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0European Union Court of Justice said<\/a>\u00a0links to “irrelevant” and outdated data should be erased on request.<\/p>\n

The case was brought by a Spanish man who complained that an auction notice of his repossessed home on Google’s search results infringed his privacy.<\/p>\n

Google said the ruling was “disappointing”.<\/p>\n

“We now need to take time to analyse the implications,” a spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

‘Inadequate’<\/p>\n

The search engine says it does not control data, it only offers links to information freely available on the internet.<\/p>\n

It has previously said forcing it to remove data amounts to censorship.<\/p>\n

The EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, welcomed the court’s decision\u00a0in a post on Facebook<\/a>, saying it was a “clear victory for the protection of personal data of Europeans”.<\/p>\n

“The ruling confirms the need to bring today’s data protection rules from the “digital stone age” into today’s modern computing world,” she said.<\/p>\n

The European Commission proposed a law giving users the “right to be forgotten” in 2012.<\/p>\n

It would require search engines to edit some searches to make them compliant with the European directive on the protection of personal data.<\/p>\n

In its judgement, the court in Luxembourg said people had the right to request information be removed if it appeared to be “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant”.<\/p>\n