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EU court says Google must honour ‘right to be forgotten’

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It has been dubbed the ‘right to be forgotten’.

In a case pitting privacy campaigners against Google, a top EU court says Internet firms can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal data from search engine results.

The European Court of Justice upheld a complaint by a Spanish man that Google searches on his name threw up links to a newspaper article in 1998 about his home being repossessed.

Google says it is disappointed at the landmark ruling from the Luxembourg-based court.

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