Google evaluates going to Court for the ruling that applied the "right to be forgotten" in favor of Natalia Denegri

08/12/2020 - 17:38

• Clarín.com
• Society

This Tuesday, in an unprecedented ruling for the National Justice, Natalia Denegri managed to get the National Civil Chamber to confirm that in her case the "right to be forgotten" will be applied, the legal figure that will allow all results to be removed from Google search that lead to his media past.

Google's response was not long in coming. "The ruling of the National Chamber, Room H, confirms a ruling that had ordered us to download certain URLs related to part of the plaintiff's media past, leaving safe content of public interest related to a court case of wide repercussion at the time" .

The company continues: "Despite the fact that the sentence has no economic content, we are evaluating appealing to the Supreme Court because the Chamber orders us to remove legal content, for example fragments of television programs of general interest or humorous, which are part of the cultural heritage beyond the subjective assessment that is made of its artistic or informative value. A more in-depth debate on this decision is important to evaluate the consequences of enabling the deindexation of legal content related to events of broad public repercussion. "

Natalia Denegri is today a famous award-winning Argentine host and producer in Florida, United States. But 20 years ago, her face was more than known in our country for being, along with Samanta Farjat, one of the "girls from the Coppola case."

The ruling of the Chamber includes YouTube, so that the videos of the fights in the Mauro Viale program are deleted, for example   . Denegri sued Google in the same way that Vice President Cristina Fernández does today.

Natalia de Negri in the 90s. / Photo Cecilia Profetico

In the Denegri ruling , the judges of first and second instance considered the argument of the complaint valid. "That the contents exposed in videos and images that appeared on Google were not informative, but responded to questions of morbidity, " Martín Leguizamón, the lawyer who initiated and carried out the former media lawsuit , explains to Clarín . "It is a day to celebrate, this changes everything," he assures and says that the vice president, like other cases against Google, could benefit .

The judges for the ruling are Claudio Kiper, Liliana Abreut and José Benito Fajre. They resulted in the de-indexing of links displaying videos or photos taken 20 years or more ago, corresponding to those scenes from any television interview that Denegri had given related to his private life.

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