Neutral Citation Number: 2023:DHC:2806
Member States from gaining access to the links in question using a search
conducted on the basis of that data subject‘s name‖.
48.
However, in Da Cunha v. Yahoo de Argentina SRL and Another,
Expte. N 561/2010, a case about defamatory search results, the Supreme
Court of Justice of Argentina recognised that intermediary liability regimes
in the European Union and the United States also accord immunity to
intermediaries which remains contingent upon disabling of illegal content
upon obtaining “actual knowledge” of the specific violation. They are,
however, under no duty of general monitoring or policing of third-party
data, and using filters to block search results would amount to prior
censorship.
49.
Closer to home, in Vysakh K.G. v. Union of India and Ors. (supra),
the Kerala High Court has succinctly observed that Google cannot be said to
be content-blind to publications made online and it is not a mere passive
conduit. Rejecting the lack of liability as professed by the learned Counsel
appearing for Google, the Kerala High Court observed as follows:
―98. We are not called upon here to determine the
responsibility or liability of Google for publishing
judgments online in terms of the Intermediary Rules.
The publication of the judgments online and allowing
the same to remain online forever may infringe upon
the right of a party based on the right to be forgotten.
We have already adverted to the nature of a right that
can be claimed as a right to be forgotten. If the
judgments of the Court are allowed to remain online
for eternity, certainly, it would invade such rights of
the parties. The problem that has arisen in the absence
of legislation is determining the period or
circumstances under which a party can invoke the
aforesaid right. We are not remaining oblivious to this
fact. A litigant may in the future, approach this Court
to remove online content. In the absence of legislation,
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By:SHAZAAD ZAKIR
Signing Date:26.04.2023
17:19:50
W.P.(CRL) 1505/2021
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