In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice—the European Union’s top court—held that data subjects in the EU have the right to compel Google Inc. and other Internet search engines to remove search results linking to websites containing personal information about them.

Bloomberg BNA Privacy & Security Law Report Senior Legal Editor Donald G. Aplin posed a series of questions to Brooke L. Daniels, counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, in Washington, about the effect of the ruling on search engines in a world of big data analytics and the possible repercussions for companies engaged in global sourcing activities. Daniels works in the firm’s Global Sourcing Practice.

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