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  On September 11, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) began hearing evidence from over 70 stakeholders in the case whose judgement shall outline the territorial scope of the right to be forgotten. The panel of 15 CJEU judges will rule in 2019. The request for a preliminary ruling (Case C-507/17) was lodged by the French Conseil d’Étaton 21 August 2017 with reference to the case Google Inc. v Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL). While Read more [...]

The Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) opined on the right to be forgotten in companies' registers: no right to be forgotten there. In case C-393/15, the Corte di Cassazione (the Italian Supreme Court) asked the ECJ to clarify the right of individuals to be forgotten, to have their data anonymized in searches attaining to companies’ registers or to provide access only to certain searchers. In particular, the Supreme Court sought the correct interpretation Read more [...]

After WP29 issued the guidelines to help authorities to deal with appeals resulting from search engines’ refusal to “de-list” (see here), the Italian Data Protection Authority is facing the challenges of implementing the Costeja case, C-131/12 and its “right to be forgotten”. The Italian Data Protection Authority received around 10 appeals against search engines refusal to de-list results from web pages. In the majority of instances, the Authority rejected the appeals Read more [...]