How Google determined our right to be forgotten

Mario Costeja González spent five years fighting to have 18 words delisted from Google search results on his name. When the Spaniard googled himself in 2009, two prominent results appeared: home-foreclosure notices from 1998, when he was in temporary financial trouble. The notices had been published in Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia and recently digitized. But their original purpose – attracting buyers to auction – had lapsed a decade ago, as had the debt.

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