The ECJ clarifies currently, like individuals from search engines can demand to delete on the left. The advocate General is in favour – but with limitations. Which explains Christoph Schwaiberghof.
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is the starting position?
In the two-current method, the so-called “right to be Forgotten”. This was the motto of a decision of the European court of 2014, it was already known.
at the Time the Supreme judges of the EU gave a Spaniard right. The had demanded from Google to remove certain Links from the result list of the search engine. These Links appeared when you googled the name of the man “”. They led to articles in a daily newspaper, in which it went to the foreclosure of a property that had occurred due to debts of the husband. Because that was in 1998, and the thing is already done, demanded of the man, the deletion of the left – at least in connection with his name.
The ECJ gave him in principle you are right: Under certain conditions, search engines can be-operator in the deletion of such Links required. Significantly, the consideration of any particular case is always. In principle, however, would outweigh the interests of the parties Concerned. The ruling was a real bombshell, because it gave the interested parties a direct claim against Google and other search engines.
