Comment: Despite ruling in Google 'right to be forgotten' case in Canada, more steps needed for Canadians to gain that right

By Mike Swift ( July 19, 2021, 22:05 GMT | Comment) -- Google's search engine has been declared a commercial activity and subject to Canada's national privacy law, a key legal step in a move by the country's national privacy regulator to establish a "right to be forgotten" in online search results similar to the one available to Europeans. But several steps lie ahead before Canadians can begin petitioning Google and other search engines to de-index search results that are inaccurate or out of date.Canada’s privacy commissioner will reboot his investigation of whether Google should be required to offer Canadians a European style right to be forgotten, now that a national court has ruled that the country’s national online privacy law applies to the world’s leading search engine....

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Comment: Despite ruling in Google 'right to be forgotten' case in Canada, more steps needed for Canadians to gain that right

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