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Businessmen pursuing ‘right to be forgotten’ in High Court after Google refuses to ‘delist’ stories on past convictions

By PA Media Lawyer

Google is pleading a “public interest” defence in a case in which two businessmen are taking action in the High Court in a bid to stop their names being linked to internet media reports about past crimes.

The two men say convictions are more than a decade old and legally “spent”.

Both argue that they have a “right to be forgotten” and want Google to stop linking their names to articles on news websites.

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