Transcript
In one of our earlier vlogs we discussed the right to be
forgotten under the GDPR. This time around, we look at the decision
of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Google v
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertes (the
French data protection regulator).
Hi, I'm Deirdre and welcome to the Kemp IT Law vlog.
Article 17 of the GDPR codified the EU based "right to be
forgotten" allowing data subjects to request erasure of
personal data in certain limited circumstances.
In a case pre-dating the GDPR, CNIL had required Google, when
granting a right to be forgotten request to remove links on all of
Google's domain name extensions and not just those accessible
within the EU. Google objected and instead only removed the links
in question from the domain names corresponding to the versions of
its search engine in EU Member States. Google also offered
functionality based on IP address blocking that would prevent
internet users
