EU Court Limits 'Right to Be Forgotten' in Google Case

摘要

The European Union Court of Justice has determined that the operator of a search engine is not required by EU law to "de-reference" pages covered by a request to exercise the EU "right to be forgotten" in versions of its search engine outside EU member states. "It is, however, required to carry out that de-referencing on the versions corresponding to all the Member States and to put in place measures discouraging internet users from gaining access, from one of the Member States, to the links in question which appear on versions of that search engine outside the EU," according to a Sept. 24 press release from the court describing its preliminary ruling on questions referred to it by the French Council of State in a case involving Google LLC as successor to Google, Inc.