CHAPTER 12
THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN AND THE INTENT TO BE REMEMBERED
How to Balance Accidental and Purposeful Forgetting
In 2012, a lawyer named Mario Costeja González got really mad at Google. It all started 12 years earlier, in Spain, where Costeja was in financial trouble and a newspaper in Spain published information on his finances. Even though his issues were eventually resolved, Google still linked to that content years later, reflecting negatively on the lawyer’s reputation. Costeja contacted the Spanish authorities, demanding that Google remove the links. In the spring of 2014, the European Court of Justice asked Google to do just that: stop showing the links as part of the search results related to Costeja’s name. The European regulators ...
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