EU paves the way to edit search results in popular search engine

Google must remove data from search results if users can demonstrate that information contains obvious inaccuracies. This has been decided by the Court of justice of the European Union. The case before the highest European Court involved two directors of a group of investment companies who had asked Google to remove search results. In it, their name was linked to certain articles criticizing the group’s investment model. They also wanted Google to remove thumbnails of them from search results. Google declined the requests, saying it did not know whether or not the information in the articles was accurate. A German judge asked the Court of Justice of the EU for an opinion on the balance between the right to be forgotten and the right to freedom of expression and information. That ruled that the operator of a search engine “must delete the content of search results referred to if the person requesting deletion can demonstrate that this information is manifestly incorrect,” according to the ruling. Access to information In order not to burden users too heavily, such evidence does not have to come from a court ruling against website publishers, according to the judges. Also, users only need to provide [...]

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