Privacy advocates have scored a win against Big Tech in a “right to be forgotten” case as the European Union’s top court has ruled that Google must honor requests to delete search result data at the request of people in Europe—as long as they can prove the information is “manifestly inaccurate.”
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) made the Dec. 8 judgment in a case involving two managers from a group of investment companies who had asked Google to scrub search results linking their names to certain articles that were critical of the group’s investment model.
