Among the so-called digital rights guaranteed by the new Spanish
Data Protection Law which is the Data Protection and Digital Rights
Guarantee Act 3/2018 of December 5, is the right to digital
erasure on Internet searches.
It is the right of citizens to request a company which manages
Internet search engines to remove personal information from the
list of search results provided by a search engine and obtained by
name.
Nonetheless, a search removal request by a citizen does not
provide unlimited rights to remove personal information from the
Web. In order that the information to be removed it must be
inadequate, inaccurate, irrelevant, outdated or excessive.
However, this law also provides for the exercise of such rights
when the personal circumstances invoked demonstrate that the right
to privacy takes precedence over the right to information.
