Tag: ECJ

European Court of Justice orders Google to delete personal data

The European Court of Justice has ruled that citizens have a right to request that Google delete their data from search results in a case that sought to see whether private citizens could leave the engine’s grid.   In the case, which began in 2011, Spain’s data protection authority had ordered Google to remove links to more than 100 online articles the agency considered potentially defamatory in a move that had stoked concerns about freedom […]