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EDPB publishes search engine guidance on the right to be... sorry, I forgot.

This week, the European Data Protection Board published draft guidelines for consultation on search engines and exercising the right to be forgotten/right to erasure under Article 17 GDPR.  This follows the ECJ's decisionthat Google doesn't have to delist search results outside of Europe or on its non-EU websites (provided they geoblock within Europe) when a data subject has validly exercised their right to be forgotten.

Have a read, and provide feedback here before 5 February 2020.

The European Data Protection Board welcomes comments on the Guidelines 5/2019 on the criteria of the Right to be Forgotten in the search engines cases under the GDPR (part 1).

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gdpr, edpb, entertainment & media