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May 14, 2014updated 10 Jul 2014 1:07pm

EU Court of Justice backs ‘right to be forgotten’ allowing individuals to force removal of links to web articles

By Press Association

People should have some say over the results that pop up when they conduct a vanity search online.

That is the thrust of a landmark European court decision that Google (pictured: Reuters) must listen and sometimes comply when individuals ask the internet search giant to remove links to newspaper articles or websites containing personal information.

Campaigners say the ruling from Europe's highest court effectively backs individual privacy rights over the freedom of information.

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