By the age of 24 the plaintiff had accumulated 74 convictions, of which only 2 were spent.
Held: The court refused an application for leave to serve proceedings on Google in California, claiming remedies under the DPA in respect of the processing of information about the convictions. Sch 3 Condition 5 was so clearly satisfied that the contrary was not arguable, so there was no triable issue: ‘legally as a consequence of the open justice principle by committing an offence [the offender] is deliberately taking steps to make the information public’.
Judges:
Stephens J
Citations:
[2017] NIQB 81
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Jurisdiction:
Northern Ireland
Cited by:
Cited – NT 1 and NT 2 v Google Llc QBD 13-Apr-2018
Right to be Forgotten is not absolute
The two claimants separately had criminal convictions from years before. They objected to the defendant indexing third party web pages which included personal data in the form of information about those convictions, which were now spent. The claims . .
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Updated: 01 April 2022; Ref: scu.598363