The “right to be forgotten,” which surfaced in May when the Court of Justice of the European Union ordered Google to ensure personal data related to a Spanish man no longer appears in search results, has travelled to Asia. A Tokyo court has issued an injunction ordering Google to remove Internet search results giving the name of a man and implying he was involved in a crime more than 10 years ago. The Japanese judge said the man had suffered “actual harm” because of the information revealed and ordered Google to remove about 120 of 230 search results related to the man.
