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According to Italia Oggi, in 2016 60% of the received request to be forgotten from search results has been granted. The percentage concerns the request to be removed from search results after the European Court of Justice issued its famous “right-to-be-forgotten” decision in the Costeja case, C-131/12. According to the source, the percentage consider the cases where the  Garante […]

After the recent Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling holding that certain users of search engines can ask, in certain cases, to search engines to remove results for queries that include their name (Case 131-12), Bing has uploaded a online form to ask for the removal in Europe.   Bing specifies that it will […]

Article 29 privacy group met on June 4, 2014 to decide whether a special taskforce of European privacy overseers should monitor Google’s attempts to respond to citizens’ requests to be forgotten. They decided it should. The taskforce should analyze how European regulators should react in case of complaint of citizens — which might be likely […]

After the recent Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling holding that certain users of search engines can ask, in certain cases, to search engines to remove results for queries that include their name (Case 131-12), Google has uploaded a online form to ask for the removal. Google specifies that Google “will assess each […]

Conclusion from the article: “Access to information and protection of privacy are both rights intended to help the individual in making government accountable. Most of the time, the two rights complement each other. However, there are conflicts—for example, privacy laws often are improperly invoked by governments. And there are cases where the conflicts are legitimate. […]

On 24 September 2019 the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) issued two decisions  concerning Google: Cases C-507/17 (Google v CNIL) and C-136/17 (GC v CNIL) . See comments to Case C-507/17 here. Apparently, both decisions are a success for Google. Not a complete success in Case C-507/17, however. And not a complete success […]

Europeans have the right to disappear from a search engine’s results under certain conditions. Directive 46/1995 as interpreted by Google Spain judgment (Case C-131/12) and GDPR Article 17. This is the so called “right to be forgotten” or right of erasure (also known as de-referencing or de-listing). The Court of Justice of the European Union […]

On June 6, 2017, the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA), the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, issued the annual report on its activity for 2016. The DPA’s activity concentrated on computer crimes and cyber security; online profiling and social media; cyberbullying; fight against terrorism and mass surveillance; Big Data; use of new technologies […]

    The Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a data breach class action for failing to sufficiently allege an injury to support standing. By way of background. Plaintiff made purchases via credit card at a Michaels store. Later on, Michaels issued a press release saying that there had been a possible data breach of its […]

Thanking CORDERY, we gladly publish the EU Data Protection – glossary (originally published by Cordery at http://www.corderycompliance.com/eu-data-protection-regulation-glossary/) We’ve put together this glossary to help explain some of the terms used in data protection and in the GDPR. If there’s a term you think we should add let us know. Agencia de Proteccción de Datos = the Spanish […]