An Analysis of the Right To Be Forgotten Ruling

W. Gregory Voss, Toulouse Business School, has published The Right to Be Forgotten in the European Union: Enforcement in the Court of Justice and Amendment to the Proposed General Data Protection Regulation at 18 Journal of Internet Business Law (July 2014). Here is the abstract.

This article analyzes the famous Google Spain case (May 13, 2014) of the Court of Justice of the European Union and its recognition of a form of “the right to be forgotten”, allowing individuals to request the delisting of their personal data from search engines if certain conditions are met. In doing so, it puts the right to be forgotten into the context of ongoing discussions on reform of the European Union’s data protection Framework and amendments in the European Parliament to the Proposed General Data Protection Regulation.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.