Control-Alter-Delete: The 'Right to be Forgotten'-Google Spain SL, Google Inc v Agenda Espanola de Protection de Datos

摘要

The Court of Justice of the European Union has held that internet search engine operators, even if based outside the EU, may be responsible for the processing of personal data and must therefore be held to be data controllers within the meaning of Directive 95/46. The effect of so holding was that the internet search engine in question may be ordered to remove a link to a third-party web page from its list of results where that link contained personal data deemed to be "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant", thereby effecting the data subject's "right to be forgotten ".