Federal Court of Justice of Germany · DE
VI ZR 405/18Begäran om förhandsavgörande om rätten till radering
Decided 2020-07-27
Also searched as: Case VI ZR 405/18, VI ZR 405/18 2020.
Legal question
How the balance between the right to erasure and freedom of expression is struck when a search engine surfaces an article about a named person.
Articles the decision applies
- GDPR · 17
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Instance chain
2020-07-27 · Reference for a preliminary ruling
VI ZR 405/18 · Federal Court of Justice of Germany
2022-12-08 · Final instance
C-460/20 · Court of Justice of the European Union
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Part of clusters
Re-read overdue
Checked against the publisher 2026-09-20 · Next check 2026-10-20
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Verifiable trust signals
- Source-linked answers and explicit evidence gaps
- Obligations, controls, risks and consequences
- Stable objects and verifiable checksums
- Rule-based objects, optional source-linked reasoning
- Model card, source status and audit