Google faced fines of 600,000 Euros in Belgium and it is imposed by Belgium’s data protection authority (APD) and for violating the EU’s “right to be forgotten” law and it’s the highest amount charged by the APD.
A person from Belgium appealed to the APD requesting to ask Google Belgium for taking down a few links that affect their reputation. The links are about some unproven harassment incidents that happened more than 10 years back. The APD says Google was “grossly negligent”.
AS per the APD’s press release, “Google has declared a serious breach by refusing it. Since the facts have mot been established, are old, and are likely to have serious repercussions for the complainant, the rights and interests of the person concerned must prevail,”
Apart from this, APD thinks obsoleted information can affect a person’s image. So, it also ordered Google not to reference pages having outdated information.
After all these, Google Belgium takes the decision to go to the court, as per the Reuters. As per Google, it worked to “strike a sensible, principled balance between people’s rights of access to information and privacy.”
“We didn’t believe this case met the European Court of Justice’s criteria for delisting published journalism from search – we thought it was in the public’s interest that this reporting remain searchable,” – a Google spokesperson to Reuters.
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