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“erased or rectified without delay”. Every single time, it cannot
be expected that the victim shall approach the court to get the
inaccurate data or information erased which is within the
control of data controllers such as Facebook or Twitter or any
other social media platforms.
7. A similar issue was raised in England in the Wales High
Courts in NT1 and NT2 Vs. Google LLC2which ordered Google
to delist search results referring to the spent conviction of a
businessman known as NT2 but rejected a similar request
made by a second businessman, NT1. The claimants therein
had been convicted of certain criminal offences many years
ago who complained that search results returned by Google
featured links to third-party reports about the convictions in
the past which were either inaccurate and/or old, irrelevant
and of no public interest or otherwise an illegitimate
interference with their rights.
The reliefs sought in those
cases were based on the prevailing data protection laws and
English Law principles affording protection in case of tortuous
misuse of private information.
The Court rejected NT1’s
request based on the fact that he was a public figure with a
2[2018]
EWHC 799 (QB).