Google girds for England battle over ‘right to be forgotten’
The plaintiffs are being represented by Carter Ruck, one of the first law firms to use super-injunctions
London/Luxembourg — Google is bracing itself for its first battle in England’s High Court over the so-called "right to be forgotten". Two anonymous people want the search engine to take down links to information about their old convictions. Both describe themselves in their court filings as businessmen. One was convicted of conspiracy to account falsely, and the other was convicted of conspiracy to intercept communications, but those convictions were spent, judge Matthew Nicklin told a pre-trial hearing on Thursday. "This is the first time that the English court is going to decide the issue of the right to be forgotten," Judge Nicklin said. The tech giant has already become embroiled in battles at the European Union’s top court over the right to be forgotten. That right — created by the European Union’s highest court in a precedent-setting ruling in May 2014 — allows people to ask for links to online information about them to be removed from search engine results if the information ...
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