EU preparing guidelines for ‘right to be forgotten’ complaints

EurActiv reported that European regulators were working on guidelines for appeals from people whose requests to remove information from search results under their name have been turned down by search engines such as Google.

The group aims at bring clarity to implementing the European Court of Justice decision from May 2014 in which it gave Europeans the right to ask search engines to erase information about them from the web.

The guidelines were expected to be finalised in November 2014.

ESO: Background information: Gathering advice on the Right to be Forgotten http://www.europeansources.info/record/gathering-advice-on-the-right-to-be-forgotten/

ESO: Background information: Factsheet on the 'Right to be forgotten ruling' (C-131/12) http://www.europeansources.info/record/factsheet-on-the-right-to-be-forgotten-ruling-c-131-12/

ESO: Background information: European Court of Justice orders Google to delete personal data http://www.europeansources.info/record/european-court-of-justice-orders-google-to-delete-personal-data/

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