Monday, December 1, 2014

The Extraterritorial Scope of the “Right to Be Forgotten” and how this Affects Obligations of Search Engine Operators Located Outside the EU

The information transferred through these networks is vast,mostly unfiltered and flows in an intangible area defined as “cyberspace”. The Courts’ recent judgment in the Google case aims at setting the boundaries to what search engine operators can and cannot do in the EU when their activities have implications to data protection rules, by determining (i) the territorial scope of such rules, (ii) the characterization of the activity of an internet search engine operator and (iii) the relevance of the “right to be forgotten” in this context. In a nutshell, the Court found that when it comes to non-EU based search engine operators, the mere existence of an affiliated company in the EU that sells ads associated with the search engine giant creates a presence in this territory and a data processor within the scope of the relevant EU Directive 

 full article at ENLR 3/2014 


 




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