EU Court Of Justice Orders Google To Omit False Data To Protect User Privacy

Europe's top court ordered Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL Google to remove data from online search results if users can prove it is faulty.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) lawsuit concerned two executives from a group of investment companies who had asked Google to remove search results linking their names to specific articles slamming the group's investment model.
They also wanted Google to remove thumbnail photos of them from search results.
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Free speech advocates and supporters of privacy rights have disputed over people's right to remove their digital traces from the internet in recent years, Reuters reports.
The proof does not have to come from a judicial decision against website publishers, and users only have to provide evidence that can reasonably be required of them to find, CJEU ruled.
Google said the links and thumbnails in question were no longer available through a web search and image search, and the content had been offline for a long time.
The EU privacy rules in 2018 stated that the right to be forgotten is excluded where processing personal data is necessary for exercising the right to information.
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