Germany mulls ‘right to be forgotten’ EU ruling

The German government is considering setting up arbitration courts to weigh in on what information people can force Google and other search-engine providers to remove from results.

Following an EU court ruling on May 13 granting consumers the “right to be forgotten,” the Interior Ministry in Berlin would seek to establish “dispute- settlement mechanisms” for consumers who file so- called take-down requests.

If search providers introduce automatic deletion, public information would be at risk, the ministry said.