“Google got a good result from the CJEU last week on the right to be forgotten front: in Google LLC v CNIL (Case C‑507/17), the French DP regulator’s rather ambitious demand for global delisting on right to be forgotten grounds was overturned. In a nutshell: Google has acknowledged that the EU’s RTBF rights are undermined if an internet user can simply switch to a non-EU version of Google and see the offending search results. So it implemented geo-blocking measures, whereby an EU user is automatically routed to an EU version of Google (one that doesn’t deliver the offending references), regardless of whether they type in a non-EU Google domain name …” (more)
[Robin Hopkins, Panopticon, 2 October]
First posted 2019-10-03 05:23:54
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