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On September 14, the SDPA sanctioned a major search engine for violating data communication regulations because the search engine had not obtained user consent prior to transmitting information related to the right to be forgotten to the webmaster.
On September 14, the Spanish Data Protection Agency
("SDPA") sanctioned a major search engine for violating
data communication regulations because the search engine had not
obtained user consent prior to transmitting information related to
the right to be forgotten to the webmaster. The SDPA held that such
transmission constituted a personal data communication, and
therefore the consent of the data subject concerned was
necessary.
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