EU: You have no right to remove you from Google - Nyheter24

A person or organization may not be removed from the search results on Google. It has now CJEU Advocate General noted. At Google celebrated the decision. 08:15

LUXEMBOURG . There is nothing in EU law that gives a person the right to “be forgotten” from Google and other search engines.

announcement from the European Court of Justice Advocate General Niilo Jäskinen got Google’s management to cheer about on Thursday.

– This is a great statement for freedom of expression. We are pleased to see that it supports our view that it would be censorship to force search engines to remove legal and legitimate information, says Bill Echikson, expression manager at Google in Europe, according to British Metro .

Spanish newspaper behind the case

reason that the issue raised in the Court of Justice is a newspaper article about a leveraged property owners in Spain in 1998. In November 2009, heard the man off her and complained that the article showed up when you searched for his name. The man was right but Google appealed.

In its opinion, the court writes Jäskinen that search engines can not be held responsible for the personal data that shows up in their results. Only improper or criminal information can be removed with the support of EU data protection rules, writes Computer Sweden.