The CJEU says that search engines like Google must agree to remove links to content with inaccurate information

BRUSELAS, 8 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled this Thursday that search engine managers such as Google must remove the link to content from their results if the person who requests it based on their right to be forgotten certifies that the information to which leads said link is "manifestly inaccurate".

In addition, the judgment of the European court specifies that the evidence presented by the person does not need to result from a judicial decision issued against the editor of the web page, although it is up to the person requesting the withdrawal to prove the manifest inaccuracy of the information.

In this sense, the Luxembourg-based Court indicates that in order to avoid an excessive burden falling on it that could undermine the useful effect of the right to withdraw links, it is only incumbent on it to provide evidence that can "reasonably" be required to seek .

For this reason, the claimant will not be obliged to present before going to trial a previous judicial decision issued at his request against the editor of the web page in question, not even a resolution of provisional measures.

The case responds to that of two managers of a group of investment companies who asked Google to remove from the results obtained from a search carried out based on their names those that included links to certain articles that gave a critical view of the investment model of said cluster.

The plaintiffs argue that these articles make inaccurate factual allegations and ask Google to remove photos of them that appear as thumbnails in the list of results of an image search based on their names.