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SPAIN VS. GOOGLE

The facts of the case

SO SORRY, WE CAN’T DO IT!• Publication was done following an order

of a public authority (bad luck).

WRONG PLACE, TRY ELSEWHERE !• Send a letter to Google Inc. (California)• Ask the newspaper

YES, WE PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS !• To ‘La Vanguardia’: “Not Guilty” • To Google: “Don’t be evil”

Do I have the right to require the removal of data or to object to the processing of data about me in the Internet?

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SPAIN VS. GOOGLE

• Both Google Inc. and Google Spain filed an appeal. • Not the first time -> to date 130 more cases against Google

Inc. and Google Spain for similar grounds are pending before the same Court (Audiencia Nacional).

• But this is the first case where the Court decides to request a preliminary ruling to the ECJ (Case C-131/12 in progress).

• The DPA’s in France, Italy and Belgium (as mentioned in the referral) rejected similar claims presented by data subjects.

• Not a problem for the Spanish DPA!

The Appeal




SPAIN VS. GOOGLE

Key questions referred

1• Is Google subject to EU / Spanish data protection

laws?

2• Is Google a data controller and directly responsible?

3• What is the scope of ‘the right to be forgotten’?




SPAIN VS. GOOGLE

• Less likely: EU / national data protection laws do not apply to SEP based outside the EEA.

• More likely: EU / national data protection laws apply and the crux point will be to decide whether or not SEP are data controllers and directly responsible for the data processing.

• Even more likely? SEP are fully responsible and data subjects have the ‘right to be forgotten’.

• The decision itself will constitute a landmark decision in all EU member States for similar cases sub iudice, companies providing search engines functionalities or similar devices and all citizens (data subjects) within the EU.

Possible scenarios and consequences



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