EU Court of Justice · 24 September 2019
GC and Others
In plain English
The strict rules on sensitive data, and on data about criminal proceedings, also bind search engines when they handle delisting requests. As a rule such links must be removed unless keeping them is strictly necessary for the public's freedom of information.
What the court ruled
the operator of a search engine is in principle required by those provisions, subject to the exceptions provided for by the directive, to accede to requests for de-referencing in relation to links to web pages containing personal data falling within the special categories referred to by those provisions.
Related
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