Have we lost our right to privacy ?

  The expression "Data is the new oil" refers to the centrality of big data to the digital economy. Like oil, data means money, but also a need for safety and security and consequently, political investment. Therefore, data protection issues facing companies represent the biggest deal of privacy concerns, and…

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GDPR : Strengthening the right to be forgotten

  Today, personal data is already protected. Indeed, there is a dereferencing right in Europe. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides another right to be forgotten, which is the right to erasure. This Regulation will come into effect on May 25th, 2018 in the European Union. The idea behind the law…

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Google fined in France for restricting the “Right to be forgotten”

The American web giant has been sentenced to 100 000 € fine by the French privacy regulator for not complying with European privacy ruling.       Let us begin with some facts The Court of Justice of the European Union decided that Google and other search engines (such as…

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The Right to be Forgotten

“When we are talking about past, eather we harp on about or we forget” (Paul Ricoeur french philosopher)

That definitely resume an ex porn actress ordeal became a legal assistant. A porn website still allowed video under her real name or patronym. A French court in 2012, February 15th have condemned this website to delete the illegal content and Google to unindex te name of the claimant connected with porn website. The Court ruling makes echo to European Commision wish to set up a European legislation review dealing with personal data. That is the purpose of the European court of justice settled May, 13th 2014 which has consecrated the right to be forgotten.

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Bing and Ask implement the “right to be forgotten”

On May 13, 2014, the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) ruled against Google, imposing the implementation of the “right to be forgotten”. Since June 26, 2014, Google has begun dereferencing web pages at the request of its users. It is now the turn of other search engines to comply with the new European rule.
 

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Though they have taken their time, the search engines Bing and Ask have decided to follow Google’s lead in enforcing the right to be forgotten. The implementation of this right by Ask and Bing ensues from users’ requests to have damaging content dereferenced by these search engines as well as Google. This controversial right was obviously meant to be applied by all search engines with a commercial activity in the EU. (suite…)

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