'It's only by making it possible for past records to recede that individuals have a chance to start anew in freedom,' said data privacy lawyer Christian Solmecke.
On 11/28/19 at 12:03 AM ESTGermany's highest court decided that a man convicted of murder in 1982 has the right to be forgotten, meaning his name can be removed from online search results.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the judges said that while it was allowable for search engines to provide news reports on current crimes,"the justifiable public interest in reports that made perpetrators identifiable decreased over time." In 2009, the man made a failed attempt at having the reports removed. In their ruling, Germany's Federal Court of Justice dismissed the suit on the grounds that"the public had an interest in learning about the Apollonia murders and that his name was inextricably tied to the events."
One group who praised the court's statement was the German office of press freedom group, Reporters Without Borders , because the judges underlined the importance of press freedom while making such decisions.
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