HDPA (Greece) - 1/2023
| HDPA - 1/2023 | |
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| Authority: | HDPA (Greece) |
| Jurisdiction: | Greece |
| Relevant Law: | Article 17 GDPR Article 21(1) GDPR Article 21(2) GDPR Article 51 GDPR Article 55 GDPR Article 56(2) GDPR |
| Type: | Complaint |
| Outcome: | Other Outcome |
| Started: | 09.01.2033 |
| Decided: | 11.01.2023 |
| Published: | 12.02.2023 |
| Fine: | n/a |
| Parties: | n/a |
| National Case Number/Name: | 1/2023 |
| European Case Law Identifier: | n/a |
| Appeal: | n/a |
| Original Language(s): | Greek |
| Original Source: | HDPA (in EL) |
| Initial Contributor: | Anastasia Tsermenidou |
The Division of the DPA refers the case in its entirety, which concerned the right to be forgotten on the grounds of a particular importance and general significance to the plenary of the DPA.
English Summary
Facts
The complainant submitted a request for deletion on "removals@google.com" of Google, since his personal data were related to his status, affect his personal and professional reputation, violate his right to respect his personal and professional privacy. To this request Google replied she has decided not to cut this content, after having balanced the relevant rights and interest related to the content including the relevance to the complainant's professional life. Google cannot assess the request in question on the basis of defamation and offences against honour and reputation in general, and that any false, inaccurate or defamatory nature of the contested information relied on by the complainant does not, according to the Costeja judgment, establish the existence of the right to erasure of search results, noting that defamation relates to a person's reputation, whereas the right to be forgotten relates to privacy. The complainant raised that is his case a judgment of the CJEU in Google Spain is applied, since his association, as a natural person, with certain publications constitutes processing of personal data within the meaning of the GDPR, which is fully applicable. The Division of the DPA refers the case at hand in its entirety because of the particular importance and general significance to the plenary of the DPA.
Holding
The Division of the DPA refers the case at hand in its entirety because of the particular importance and general significance to the plenary of the DPA.
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English Machine Translation of the Decision
The decision below is a machine translation of the Greek original. Please refer to the Greek original for more details.
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