On 24 September 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union
("CJEU"), following Advocate General
(the "AG") Szpunar's Opinion,
circumscribed the territorial scope of the de-referencing right to
the European Union in the case C-507/17 Google LLC (successor in
law to Google Inc.) v Commission nationale de l'informatique et
des libertés (CNIL). The de-referencing is the right of
individuals to request from online search engine operators that
they remove information concerning them from the list of results
displayed following a search on their name, the results of which
are based on information indexed by the search engine on the
internet.
According to the CJEU, the operator of a search engine is not
required by EU law to carry out a de-referencing on all versions of
its search engine, but only the versions implemented in all the
Member States.
