Natalia Denegri against Google: for the first time in Argentina, Justice applied the "right to be forgotten" in favor of the former "Coppola girl"

08/12/2020 - 12:32

• Clarín.com
• Society

Natalia Denegri is today a famous award-winning Argentine host and producer in Florida, United States. But 20 years ago, her face and name was more than known in our country for being, along with Samantha Farjat, one of the "girls from the Coppola case." This Tuesday, in an unprecedented ruling for the national Justice, Denegri managed to get the National Civil Chamber to confirm that in his case the "right to be forgotten" will be applied , the legal figure that will allow him to remove all Google results from search that lead to his media past.

That includes YouTube, so that, for example, even the videos of the fights in the Mauro Viale program are deleted. Chamber H of the National Civil Chamber confirmed this Tuesday the application for the first time in Argentina of the right to be forgotten, in favor of Denegri, who sued Google in the same way that the vice president, Cristina Fernández, does today .

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 .

Punctually, the Justice recognized the damage that the dissemination of these images and material in general of his public appearances in the 90s caused Denegri today. The provision also took into account that the producer -which was awarded 13 times in con the Florida Emmy Award for documentaries and social content programs - she was "the victim of a criminal maneuver in which false evidence was implanted" and "was illegally deprived of her liberty."

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.

The right to be forgotten began to apply in 2014 in Europe. It is worth noting that it does not affect the published content, nor the mention of it on other pages other than those of the result when searching in Google.

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