SOMETIMES a local spark can cause a global fire. In 1998 La Vanguardia,
a Spanish daily, ran an announcement publicising the auction of a house
to pay taxes owed by Mario Costeja González, a lawyer. The event would
have been consigned to oblivion had the newspaper not digitised its
archives a few years later. Instead, it came first in Google’s results
for searches for Mr Costeja’s name, causing him all manner of
professional problems.
When the online giant refused to remove links to the material, Mr
Costeja turned to Spain’s data-protection authority. The case ended up
in the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which ruled in May that Google
must remove certain links on request. The ruling has established a
digital “right to be forgotten”—and forced Google to tackle one of the
thorniest problems of the internet age: setting the boundary between
privacy and freedom of speech.
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