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Why didn't he ask the newspaper to remove his information? Is Google to remove the search results (the link) or just their cache?
by brador 12y ago
Why didn't he ask the newspaper to remove his information?
Is Google to remove the search results (the link) or just their cache?
- Sanddancer 12y agoMario Costeja González sued both Google and the Newspaper to remove the data, asking both to completely memory hole that his property was ever put up for auction. This includes links in the search results.
- ksec 12y agoWhile I agree you should be able to delete something off the internet ( to a certain degree ). How is putting up something for auction, which is an act of public disclosure, be a privacy issue? I am not sure about Spain, but there are plenty of countries in today's world which have the flat / house selling price listed for the past 10 - 20 years.
- a3_nm 12y agoI'm too lazy to look up a primary source for this, but it seems that the newspaper article was published as a legal obligation: http://www.nextinpact.com/news/87482-existe-t-il-droit-a-oubli-contre-moteur-google.htm http://www.nextinpact.com/news/87482-existe-t-il-droit-a-oub... "La CNIL espagnole avait rejeté la réclamation contre le journal puisque les informations avaient été publiées en raison de contrainte légale.", meaning, "The Spanish equivalent of the CNIL http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNIL http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNIL had rejected the claim against the newspaper as the data had been published due to legal constraint [sic]".
- ds9 12y agoThe court is making a distinction that may be hard to define because it is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. It's OK for this auction to be advertised locally, but not further from the area? Does this apply to any aggregation or reposting of data that is publicly listed somewhere else, if it mentions identifiable individuals?