Google Argentina celebrated through its @googleargentina account the ruling of the Supreme Court “which confirms its strong commitment to freedom of expression and information.”
In this way, the company highlighted the decision of the highest court to revoke this Tuesday, unanimously, the rulings that favored the businesswoman and TV host Natalia Denegri in the lawsuit he filed against Google to ask for “right to be forgotten”.
“We positively value the unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice that confirms its strong commitment to freedom of expression and information on the Internet and the right of citizens to search for and access content of public interest,” Google posted on its Twitter account. .
Thus, it ratifies that search engines such as Google play an essential role for freedom of expression, since they enhance the exercise of its social dimension.
– Google Argentina (@googleargentina) June 28, 2022
He also pointed out that Justice “confirms that search engines like Google play an essential role for freedom of expression, as they enhance the exercise of its social dimension.”
Finally, Google stated: “We also agree that the mere passage of time does not imply that news or information lose their relevance since they are essential for the exercise of social memory.”
Speaking to Télam, Denegri said today that the videos linked by Google when a search is made for him “encourage gender-based violence and the stigmatization of women.”
“Today in Argentina I was a victim for the second time in my life. They did not respect that in those years I was a minor and the victim of a terrible crime,” Denegri said in statements to Télam.
Invoking the “right to be forgotten”, the 46-year-old woman had demanded that the notes and videos that refer to her connection to the so-called “Coppola case” be removed from Internet search engines.
For the Court, freedom of expression includes the right to transmit ideas, facts and opinions through the Internet and search engines, a tool that has become a great public forum due to the facilities it provides for accessing information, according to explained in the ruling.
The Court assessed that Denegri is a public figure who gained notoriety at the time, and voluntarily exposed himself to television programs broadcasting a case that had “great public interest in society.”
The EU recognized the right to be forgotten in 2014, in a dispute between Google and the Spanish regulator
In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union recognized the “right to be forgotten”, in a dispute between Google and the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, after determining that Internet search engines should eliminate search engines from their results lists. links that led to personal data on web pages published by third parties, when the person affected by said data had requested it.
Since 2014, Google removed 48.6% of the URLs claimed, according to the guidelines of the working group on the implementation of the resolution of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the right to be forgotten, those of the European Committee for the Protection of Data and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
However, in many cases the company did not comply with this regulation despite the fact that in 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) began to govern throughout the European Union, by means of which the plaintiffs could demand that Google suppress negative reports about him.
Meanwhile, after denouncing Google, in some cases with fines of up to ten million euros, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) pointed out in 2022 the “messy” process that those who wish not to appear in the databases must follow. of the seeker.
For its part, the company highlighted “working hard to implement the right to be forgotten in Europe and maintaining a balance between the right of people to access information and the right to privacy,” according to the El País website.
