Carsten Kociok

EU Limits Territorial Scope of ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ on the Internet

By Carsten A. Kociok & Greenberg Traurig on September 25, 2019

Posted in Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), data protection, ePrivacy, EU, European Union Law, GDPR, governing law, GT Alert, litigation, privacy

On Sept. 24, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decided that the “right to be forgotten” does not require a search engine operator to carry out de-referencing on non-EU member state versions of its search engine. The case relates to a penalty of €100,000 that the French data protection authority, CNIL,…

CJEU Finds Website Operators Using Social Media Plugins Are Joint Controllers

By Gretchen A. Ramos, Carsten A. Kociok & Greenberg Traurig on August 1, 2019

Posted in Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), ePrivacy, EU, European Directive, European Union Law, GDPR, GT Alert, litigation, privacy

On July 29, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that a website operator using a social media plugin is a joint controller with the social media company providing the plugin and can be held jointly liable in relation to such processing activities. Although the case was decided under…