Right to be forgotten: first rulings of the Privacy Guarantor after the no of … – Key4biz

 

“The Guarantor privacy has taken the first steps on the reports submitted by citizens after the rejection by Google in their requests for deindicizzare pages on the web that reported data no longer considered of public interest. “

And ‘what we read today in the bulletin of the Guarantor, which states as a result of the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice on the right to’ oblivion , Google is in fact required to give feedback to the cancellation requests, from the search results, web pages that contain the name of the applicant found using as a keyword the name of the person . The company shall from time to time various elements such as : the public interest to know the news, the time spent by the event, the accuracy of the news and the relevance of the same within professional category. Faced with the denial of Google, users can turn to the Italian Authority for the privacy or legal authorities.

The reports and complaints received by the Guarantor, the Guarantor continues, affecting the demand for de-indexation of articles related to procedural events still recent, and in some cases not concluded.

In seven of the nine cases defined the Guarantor has accepted the request of the interested parties, considering that Google’s position was correct as was the prevailing ‘ aspect of the public to access information via search engines, based on the fact that the procedural events were found to be too new and not yet fulfilled all instances.

In two cases, however, the Authority has approved the application and reporting. In the first, because in the documents published on a website were number of excess information , referring also to people outside the court case narrated. In the second, because the news published was placed in a context likely to affect the privacy of the person. All in violation of the rules of Privacy Code and the code of ethics that requires it to provide personal information to the extent of ‘ “materiality of the information about facts of public interest” and not to describe sexual habits related to a specific identified or identifiable person. The Authority has therefore prescribed Google to deindicizzare the url reported.

They are dozens, at the time, the reports received to the Guarantor pursuant to the judgment of the European Court of Justice on the right to be forgotten.