In the weeks following the European Court of Justice (CJEU) decision on the so-called “right to be forgotten,” reactions have varied among stakeholders. And today, Google announced it will begin removing links to online content in Europe by the end of June, according to The New York Times. Now that enough time has passed since the decision, Profs. Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul de Hert have ruminated on its implications. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Papakonstantinou and de Hert “calmly assess what the CJEU decision really is and is not about,” suggesting it “has nothing to do with a ‘right to be forgotten’” at all.
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