Google Belgium SA, a subsidiary of Google, was fined €600,000 for rejecting a data subject’s application to dereference outdated articles which were damaging to the data client’s reputation, emphasizing Google’s lack of transparency in the dereferencing applications. The Data Protection Authority discovered that the most articles related to unfounded harassment complaints may lead to severe repercussions on the data subjects’ reputations. These data subjects were justified in requesting Google to dereference or delete de articles. The Data Protection Authority said that the same principle applies to public persons holding political office, despite some slight differences in protection. Google’s rejection of the dereferencing application breached Art. 17 of the GDPR (fined with €500,000). Moreover, the Data Authority Authority imposed another €100,000 fine for the breach of the transparency principle.
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