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ARTICLE · 27 NOVEMBER 2019

Will The Internet Remember You Forever? Right To Be Forgotten And Its Territorial Limits

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Every individualin the European Union has the Right to be Forgotten.

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Every individual in the European Union has the Right to be Forgotten. This right ensures that when need be, if a person seeks to delist his personal information from the internet searches, he has the right to approach the data operators directly asking them to do the same. This right is incidental to the right to privacy. But the question is whether the personal information is off the internet globally or just in your region?

Google LLC has its domain search versions categorized country wise. It uses the technique of geo-blocking to prevent one region from using the version categorised specifically for some other region.

In the latest case of Google LLC v. CNIL, the defendant in support of the individuals that approached them, demanded Google to de-reference the links containing personal information of them globally and not restricting the dereferencing to the EU region. The defendant argued that such disclosure of information in other regions but in EU violates

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