“The judgment issued by the First Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on 25 November 2021 in case 77419/16 (Biancardi v Italy) increases the scope of the ‘right to be forgotten’. It holds that de-indexing is directly applicable to online publications hosting an article and not only to search engines allowing its retrieval. The case concerns an Italian online newspaper convicted in a civil action by the Court of Cassation for not having de-indexed a news. The Court held it as no longer current and therefore – this is the heart of the matter – of not being any more of public interest. It was related to an ‘ordinary’ instead of a ‘public’ person …” (more)
[Andrea Monti, Inforrm’s Blog, 9 December]
First posted 2021-12-09 16:30:11
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