Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly wrong, the European Union's top court said Thursday.
FILE - In this photo taken on Oct. 5, 2015 a woman walks by the entrance to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The European Unions top court says Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly wrong. People in Europe have the right to ask search engines to delete links to outdated or embarrassing information about themselves, even if it is true, under a principle known as right to be forgotten.
give people the right to control what appears when their name is searched online, but the regulations frequently pit data privacy concerns against the public’s right to know.“Since 2014, we’ve worked hard to implement the right to be forgotten in Europe, and to strike a sensible balance between people’s rights of access to information and privacy,” the company said in a statement.
The court disagreed, saying that if someone submits relevant and sufficient evidence proving the “manifest inaccuracy" of the information, the search engine must grant the request. Google said the links and thumbnails in question in this particular case aren't available through web and image search anymore. “The content at issue has been offline for a long time,” it said.
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