His case was initially rejected by a federal court in 2012 on the basis that his right to privacy did not outweigh public interest and press freedom. But Germany's highest court has now thrown out that initial ruling, meaning his case will now return to the federal courts. In 2014, a European Court of Justice ruling forced search engines to comply with requests to remove results. Google hit back last September when the same court ruled that the right to be forgotten only applied to search results in Europe. In a separate case, the German constitutional court ruled against a woman campaigning to have the transcript of a TV programme from 2010 removed from searches of her name.

Source: The Local November 27, 2019 15:45 UTC