On March 28, 2023, roughly six months before the right to request de-indexation takes effect in Québec, the Superior Court of Québec ordered Google to pay $500,000 to A.B., a prominent Québec businessman, for failing to de-index a site containing defamatory materials.
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On March 28, 2023, roughly six months before the right
to request de-indexation takes effect in Québec, the
Superior Court of Québec ordered Google to pay $500,000 to
A.B., a prominent Québec businessman, for failing to
de-index a site containing defamatory materials. The materials,
which were posted on a site accessible through the defendant's
search engine, considerably tarnished A.B.'s reputation in both
Canada and the United States. Upon learning of their existence in
2007, A.B. repeatedly requested that the defendant remove the links
from its search engine. The defendant originally complied, although
only for Canadian searches, and subsequently re-indexed the
materials in 2011, after which they were once again accessible from
Canada.
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