Case C-131/12, Google Spain SL & Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Proteccción de Datos (AEPD) & Mario Costeja González, 13 May 2014, ECLI:EU:C:2014:317 – Opinion Advocate-General Jääskinen of 25 June 2013
Personal data – Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of such data – Material and territorial scope – Internet search engines – Processing of data contained on websites – Searching for, indexing and storage of such data – Responsibility of the operator of the search engine – Establishment on the territory of a Member State – Extent of that operator's obligations and of the data subject's rights
Article 2, 4, 12 and 14 of Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data
Herke Kranenborg is Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission and Affiliated Senior Researcher at the K.U. Leuven. From October 2008 until January 2013, he worked for the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The author has not been involved in the present ruling. This contribution is written in a personal capacity and reflects the opinion of the author and is to a large extent based on a publication in the Dutch law magazine , October 2014, p. 487-493. The author wishes to thank Kathy Skelly for her comments on an earlier version of this contribution.
