TLDR: the first real Canadian precedent on digital erasure vs free expression.
- Canada’s privacy commissioner says Google violated federal privacy law by refusing to de-list search results about a dropped criminal charge when the person’s name is queried.
- Commissioner confirms a limited “right to be forgotten”: delisting can occur when serious harm outweighs public interest - the articles stay online, just not on name searches.
- The commissioner can only recommend; to force compliance they’d need Federal Court. Google could push this to the Supreme Court.
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/google-defies-canada-s-right-t-jzTNFrg9SRSrYTWqFYRF8Q