German court backs murderer's 'right to be forgotten' online
Man convicted of crime in 1982 wants name removed from internet search results
September 2019
'Right to be forgotten' on Google only applies in EU, court rules
Europe’s top court says firm does not have to take sensitive information off global search
January 2019
Dutch surgeon wins landmark 'right to be forgotten' case
'Right to be forgotten' by Google should apply only in EU, says court opinion
September 2018
'Right to be forgotten' could threaten global free speech, say NGOs
ECJ hears France’s data regulator wants to extend 2014 ruling to apply universally
April 2018
Chips with Everything
Google vs the right to be forgotten: Chips with Everything podcast
Google loses landmark 'right to be forgotten' case
March 2018
'Right to be forgotten': high court hears second Google case
Open door
Should we forget about the ‘right to be forgotten’?
Paul Chadwick
February 2018
'Right to be forgotten' claimant wants to rewrite history, says Google
Man wants results that mention his criminal conviction removed in first case of its kind in England
August 2017
First thoughts
The right to be forgotten is the right to have an imperfect past
Suzanne Moore
The data protection bill is about refusing to hand over ownership of our identity to Google and Facebook, says the Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore
July 2017
ECJ to rule on whether 'right to be forgotten' can stretch beyond EU
Final step in three-year legal battle between Google and France will determine whether nations get to choose whether data is removed
February 2017
So you want to switch off digitally? I’m afraid that will cost you…
Laws protecting workers from employers’ out-of-hours emails ignore the fact that, for many, switching off is not an option
November 2016
Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis
The internet echo chamber satiates our appetite for pleasant lies and reassuring falsehoods and has become the defining challenge of the 21st century
September 2016
Greenslade
Does 'the right to be forgotten' ruling threaten our right to know?
Author of a book about the controversial court ruling set to speak about its implications alongside a Google executive
Funeral held for Italian woman who killed herself over sex tape - video
The funeral for Tiziana Cantone is held in Naples on Friday following the 31-year-old’s suicide
Italy grapples with suicide of woman taunted over online sex video
Tiziana Cantone, 31, won case to have material removed from search engines and social networks but was ordered to pay costs and never escaped torment
August 2016
Greenslade
Journalists must fight Companies House proposal to delete records
Roy Greenslade
Essential information about people behind past business failures, such as BHS buyer Dominic Chappell, will vanish if database is reduced from 20 to six years
May 2016
Google takes right to be forgotten battle to France's highest court
Company is appealing against decision by French data protection authority to apply search-results ruling to all its domains
April 2016
European parliament approves tougher data privacy rules
‘Groundbreaking’ changes strengthen EU privacy protections, enshrine right to be forgotten and give regulators wide-reaching powers
