Search engines such as Google must remove entries from the results lists if they are found to be incorrect.
Data subjects do not have to contact the person who put the information online first, but can hold Google liable. This was decided by the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in Luxembourg on Thursday.
Targeted negative messages
The background is a case before the German Federal Court in Karlsruhe, in which a financial services couple believes that an American website has discredited them. The company behind this site, in turn, is accused of launching targeted negative messages to later blackmail those affected.
Alphabet subsidiary Google refused to remove the links to the articles. One cannot judge whether there is any truth to the allegations.
The ECJ did not follow this. If a person can prove that a search leads to a page with clearly incorrect information, the search engine must remove the associated link. It does not need a court decision, it said. Data subjects need only provide such evidence as “reasonably be required”.
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Soource :Watson
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