The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that users have the right to have search results about them deleted if the information they contain can be proven to be inaccurate.
The ruling relates to a German legal dispute brought by two investment managers who had asked Google to remove search results linking their names to certain articles criticising the group's investment model. According to the executives, the links contained false claims.
The investment managers also wanted Google to remove thumbnail photos of them from search results.
The company refused to comply, arguing that it was unaware whether the information contained in the articles was accurate or not.
Subsequently, the Federal Supreme Court of Germany asked the Court of Justice of the EU to interpret the dispute under the light of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In particular, the case concerned users' "right to be forgotten", as well...