On May 13, 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union\u00a0(\u201cCJEU\u201d) announced its judgment in Google Spain SL, Google\u00a0Inc. v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos, Mario Consteja\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez. The decision required Google to delist certain internet\u00a0search results when a search query was made using an\u00a0individual\u2019s name. Commentators worldwide have referred to this\u00a0delisting as the Right to be Forgotten. This article analyzes the\u00a0legal background of the case, and the implications for technology\u00a0companies and individuals. Specifically, the article concludes the\u00a0required delisting is much more about obscurity than forgetting.\u00a0The article concludes by making a recommendation for how to\u00a0create an obscurity center, which could implement the delisting\u00a0requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On May 13, 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union\u00a0(\u201cCJEU\u201d) announced its judgment in Google Spain SL, Google\u00a0Inc. v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos, Mario Consteja\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez. The decision required Google to delist certain internet\u00a0search results when a search query was made using an\u00a0individual\u2019s name. Commentators worldwide have referred to this\u00a0delisting as the …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,68,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7226,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}