The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled today that individuals should have the right to remove outdated information about themselves returned in results delivered by search companies such as Google. The so-called ‘right to be forgotten’, proposed by the European Union in 2012 but not yet passed into law, means that an individual should be allowed to request that outdated or irrelevant information is removed from a company’s servers and therefore_removed from being_publicly accessible on the Web. It was_a_view with which the ECJ agreed: The Court observes in this regard that even initially lawful processing of...

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