On November 15, 2015, the Spanish Supreme Court ordered (source document in Spanish) a search engine to take down certain search results of two persons convicted for smuggling in 1985. Because the first search yielded an old newspaper article about the crime, the Court ruled that the data was no longer adequate for its original purpose and infringed on privacy rights. The Court also distinguished the duties of newspaper libraries, which do not have the duty to remove any information but do have a duty to prevent such information from appearing on search engines.
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