{"id":710,"date":"2023-09-18T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/2023\/09\/18\/why-qwant-continues-to-apply-your-right-to-be-forgotten-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:58:02","slug":"why-qwant-continues-to-apply-your-right-to-be-forgotten-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/en\/2023\/09\/18\/why-qwant-continues-to-apply-your-right-to-be-forgotten-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Qwant continues to apply your “Right to be Forgotten” worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
Everything we do publicly, everything that is published by ourselves or by others, is indeed as much collected data that feeds the algorithms.<\/p>\n
This has enabled enormous technical progress and will undoubtedly serve humanity if we continue to care about the rights and interests of every human being. As a search engine, we have a heavy responsibility to ensure that everyone’s rights are well preserved.<\/p>\n
Sometimes when people type your name into a search engine, they may get information that you prefer they didn’t see. The question is whether you have the right to have these results deleted.<\/p>\n
In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union decided with the ” Google Spain” ruling<\/a> that yes, you should have this right, as the information you would have preferred to hide is not recognized as being in the public interest. Since then, every European citizen and every user of a search engine established in Europe has the “Right to be forgotten”.<\/p>\n In 2016, the European Union adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and reaffirmed the existence of this “Right to be Forgotten”. Article 17<\/a> of the GDPR specifies that, under certain conditions, individuals have “the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning them without undue delay”.<\/p>\n But one question was whether this should have an impact on non-European internet users who search for you. What should prevail, between the right of the European individual to the protection of his personal data and the right of a non-European to access this information, since the “Right to be forgotten” is not applied in his country?<\/p>\n The French data protection authority, the CNIL, has decided that the “Right to be Forgotten” must be respected regardless of where the user searches. Google opposed the ruling, saying it should only apply to user searches located within the European Union, so that EU law doesn’t apply beyond its borders.<\/p>\n