Do Not Forget About The ‘Right To Be Forgotten'

Last year, European citizens were granted the right to submit a request to Google for the delisting of personal information deemed to be harmful, out of date or irrelevant, through a ruling issued by the European Court of Justice. This means that the information would no longer come up in search results following searches carried out on European websites.

Since entering into effect in 2014, Google has is reported to have processed over a million of these requests, turning down the ones that were deemed to have no merit. Recently France's data regulator CNIL, has given Google a 15-day time frame within which to comply with the Court's ruling regarding certain requests that, in CNIL's opinion, should have qualified for data removal.