At the Intersection of Technology, Law, and Business
October 01, 2019 - Privacy + Data Security

Forget Me...or Not

The Madden Saga Continues: On Remand, Madden Survives Summary Judgment and District Court Certifies Class

In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice—Europe’s highest court—dealt Google a clear win by placing a territorial limit on the “right to be forgotten” in the EU.  The court’s holding in Google v. Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) clarifies that a search engine operator that is obligated to honor an individual’s request for erasure by “de-referencing” links to his or her personal data (i.e., removing links to web pages containing that personal data from search results) is only required, under the GDPR, to de-reference results on its EU domains, and not on all of its domains globally.

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