Higher Regional Court of Cologne held that a bare assertion is insufficient for delisting
The case draws a line between the right to erasure and a search engine’s duty to investigate the accuracy of third-party publications on its own initiative. The full text of the judgment in the Judykatura database shows what evidence a data subject must provide in order to trigger the search engine operator’s verification duties. The court refused relief because, before the evidentiary hearing, the claimant had essentially confined himself to disputing the information and explaining his own account of events.
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