"...The right to be forgotten recently celebrated its first birthday.
This was an infringement of his privacy, he claimed.
The ECJ agreed, and instituted what has come to be known as the right to be forgotten.
It said citizens have a right to demand the erasure of search-engine links to stories containing "irrelevant" or "outdated" data about them.
This means, weirdly, that online news reports about, for example, that Spanish man's financial travails will still exist—Europeans just won't be able to find them, at least not by using Google or any of the other main search engines.
In the year since the ECJ effectively gave us the right to say "It does not exist!" there have been tens of thousands of requests for the rewriting of history.
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