Thursday, September 25, 2014

Google pinned by the French courts on the Right to Oblivion – Digital Zone

 
         
         Published September 25, 2014 – 8:39 by Francois Giraud

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The French court has ordered Google to remove links estimated defamatory. A first in France and even in Europe according to the lawyer of the victim

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The court relied for the first time in France and even in Europe on the judgment of 13 May the Court of Justice of the European Union to force Google to de-index links to comments considered slanderous of its search engines. The plaintiffs had judging by the Criminal Court on 13 March that the defamatory statements were aimed on Facebook and on a website, then they asked Google to de-index bonds that led to these remarks. For Google removes links faster, the complainants before the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris in emergency June 5. The verdict is in on June 16 and Justice ordered Google to remove links concerned with a fine of € 1,000 per day of delay for two months and the payment of € 1,500 for victims to cover costs justice.

Google sentenced by the French justice

Google has since implemented a form of requests right to be forgotten, dated May 29, 2014 to apply for permits as removal of content deemed harmful to the reputation of European e-users. Recall that Google receives about 1,000 requests for removal of content per day. The agency indicates that the VIP Reputation Web giant recorded 135,000 requests on September 22, 2014 470 000 Web pages. The study shows that the refusal rate was approximately 60% in the last three months. The survey shows that VIP Reputation 59% of applications were rejected by Google and 5% of them had to be accompanied by additional information. Of the 15,061 requests received by Google, 53% remain untreated, 7976 have not been answered and 7085 URLs have been processed.



Google made its European tour and arrived in Paris tomorrow

The third public hearing of the European tour of Google be held in Paris this Friday, 26 September 2014 Various figures from associations, economic, political and legal give their views and discuss with experts. The group said at the public meetings, discussions will allow us to find the balance between the right of people to oblivion and the right to public information. The dedicated page for this operation allows anyone to leave a comment. Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman will attend the roundtable, with David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer. Other personalities are expected as Sylvie Kauffman, editorial director of the World or Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.

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