Google faces data watchdogs over ‘right to be forgotten’

Report of a meeting of the EU's Article 29 Working Party with representatives of the main search engines, including Google, Yahoo and Bing in Brussels, 23 July 2014.

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party was set up under the Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data Choose translations of the previous link and on the free movement of such data. It is made up of representatives of the European data protection authorities of the EU and its Member States. of It has advisory status and acts independently.

On the 15 July 2014 the European data protection authorities came together in Brussels to exchange views over the consequences of the European Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) judgment of May 2014 regarding the right to be forgotten on the internet.

The objective was to elaborate coordinated and coherent guidelines on the handling of individuals’ complaints that may be submitted to the authorities in the case of negative responses from search engines to the request for removal from indexing.

The data protection authorities invited the key search engines to discuss with them, on the 24 July 2014, the practical implementation of the key principles in this CJEU case in order to finalise the WP29’s guidelines foreseen for autumn 2014.

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