Source: www.curia.europa.eu Court of Justice of the European Union PRESS RELEASE No 1/19 Luxembourg, 10 January 2019 Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-136/17 G.C. and Others v CNIL Advocate General Szpunar proposes that the Court should hold that the operator of a search engine must, as a matter of course, accede to a request for the de-referencing of sensitive data The operator of a search engine must, however, ensure protection of the right of access to information and of the right of freedom of expression A dispute has arisen between, on the one hand, Ms G.C., Mr A.F., Mr B.H. and Mr E.D. and, on the other hand, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (French Data Protection Authority) (‘the CNIL’) with regard to four of that authority’s decisions refusing to put the company Google Inc. on formal notice to de-reference various links, included in the results list displayed following a search made on the basis of their names, to web pages published by t