Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 09/24/2019

Subject: The Court affirmed that where a search engine operator grants a request for de-referencing pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation), that operator is not required to carry out that de-referencing on all versions of its search engine, but on the versions of that search engine corresponding to all the Member States, using, where necessary, measures which, while meeting the legal requirements, effectively prevent or, at the very least, seriously discourage an internet user conducting a search from one of the Member States on the basis of a data subject’s name from gaining access, via the list of results displayed following that search, to the links which are the subject of that request

Parties: Google (Portée territoriale du déréférencement)

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access

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