The European Data Protection Board, or the 'EDPB', has
issued a set of guidelines (Guidelines 5/2019) regarding the criteria of
the right to be forgotten under the General Data Protection
Regulation, or 'GDPR' (Regulation 2016/679). The right to
be forgotten is dealt with in Articles 17 and 19 of the GDPR,
together with the right of erasure and the notification obligation
provision respectively. Guidelines 5/2019 were adopted very
recently, on the 7th of July 2020, with the aim of interpreting the
right to be forgotten in terms of processing by search engine
providers and delisting requests submitted by data subjects.
Essentially, the Guidelines were published following two cases of
the Court of Justice of the European Union, (CJEU), namely the
cases of 'Google Spain vs. Costeja
Gonzáles' (Case C-131/12) and
'Google vs. CNIL' (Case C-136/17).
