Right to be Forgotten
Right to be Forgotten – Recent Quebec Case (C.L. v. BCF Avocats d’affaires (2016))
Quebec was the first province to enact a data protection law for the private sector, an Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector in 1993. This law is substantially similar to the federal law PIPEDA. The Quebec Commission d’Accès à l’Information (CAI), the government body responsible for the administration and enforcement of the Quebec law, […] Read more
Forget about bringing the ‘right to be forgotten’ to Canada
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently chose to make reputation and privacy one of its priorities for the next five years and has launched a consultation in which it asks if there is a way to apply a “right to be forgotten” in Canada. This is the “right” famously coined by the […] Read more
Google condamné pour avoir refusé une demande de droit à l’oubli
Auteure: Catherine Paquin-Veillette, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Le 19 décembre 2014, le Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, ordonnait à Google de faire droit à une demande de déréférencement présentée par l’une de ses utilisatrice. Aussi appelé droit à l’oubli, le droit au déréférencement est la possibilité donnée à une personne de faire supprimer […] Read more
Over half of “requests to be forgotten” refused by Google
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued in May 2014 a groundbreaking decision for online privacy rights in Google Inc. v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos under which European Union citizens have the right to require the erasure of inadequate, irrelevant or outdated information from search engines. This decision further concluded that […] Read more
The Internet Never Forgets: Google Inc.’s “right to be forgotten” EU ruling and its implications in Canada
In May of this year, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a groundbreaking decision for online privacy rights in Google Inc. v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos. The CJEU ruled that European Union citizens have the right to require the erasure of inadequate, irrelevant or outdated information from search engines, […] Read more