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Insights about the first three years of the Right To Be Forgotten requests at Google

Elie

The "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) is the landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. Since this ruling came into effect a little over three years ago (May 2014), Google has received ~2.4 millions URLs delisting requests. 43% of these URLs ended-up being delisted.

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Insights about the first five years of Right to be Forgotten requests at Google

Elie

Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF). This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information uncovered by queries containing the name of the requester. transparency report.

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EDPB Releases 2019 Annual Report

Hunton Privacy

This included publication of guidelines, binding decisions and general guidance on the interpretation of EU data protection law. The final two sets of guidance remained open to public consultation into 2020, and will likely be adopted in final form later this year.

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Three years of the Right to be Forgotten

Elie

The “Right to be Forgotten” is a privacy ruling that enables Europeans to delist certain URLs appearing in search results related to their name. million URLs that were requested for delisting from Google Search over the last three and a half years.

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Brits Express Greater Concern Over Data Privacy as Cyber Attacks Soar

IT Governance

Three quarters of UK residents are concerned about their online safety, according to a study by the cyber security firm Surfshark. Meanwhile, less than half of respondents were aware of their right to be forgotten. That figure might not come as a surprise, given the growing awareness of data privacy. Attitude adjustment.

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Flurry of activity in the Privacy Act review, including tougher penalties and new online privacy framework

Data Protection Report

Public consultation for this discussion paper is open until 10 January 2022. For body corporates, the maximum penalty will increase to an amount not exceeding the greater of: $10 million; three times the value of the benefit obtained by the body corporate from the conduct constituting the serious or repeated interference with privacy; or.

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Belgium: Belgian DPA imposes a EUR600,000 fine, its highest fine ever, on Google Belgium for non-compliance with right to be forgotten

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

However, on 14 July 2020, the Belgian DPA imposed a fine of EUR600,000 on Google Belgium SA/NV (Google Belgium) for not respecting a Belgian resident’s right to be forgotten. GDPR, which grants supervisory authorities the right to exercise its powers on the territory of their own member states. The case against Google Belgium.

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