Google Spain SL v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion De Datos
European Court of Justice
ECLI EU C 2014 616 (2014)
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Gonzalez (plaintiff), a Spanish citizen, discovered that searching his name on Google turned up links to an old newspaper notice about a real estate auction connected to his social-security debt recovery; he sued Google Spain and Google Inc. (defendants), seeking removal of the personal information from Google's search results.
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Whether, in the European Union, a search engine operator must honor an individual's request to remove from its search results links to personal information about that individual published by third-party websites.