The ICO said however that publishers and other third parties which are notified about removal of links to their pages will not be able to complain to the ICO about it, because "they are not the data subject" – that is, the person affected by the content of the page.
"Fine view" processed image data refer to the raw data subject to filtration by the mammographic unit workstation.
After all, the court specified that the right to be forgotten didn't apply "if it appeared, for particular reasons, such as the role played by the data subject in public life, that the interference with his fundamental rights is justified by the preponderant interest of the general public".
And there is an important exception if "for particular reasons, such as the role played by the data subject in public life … the interference with his fundamental rights is justified by the preponderant interest of the general public in having … access to the information in question".
"However" - and it's a big, big however - "that would not be the case if it appeared, for particular reasons, such as the role played by the data subject in public life, that the interference with his fundamental rights is justified by the preponderant interest of the general public in having, on account of inclusion in the list of results, access to the information in question".
However, that would not be the case if it appeared, for particular reasons, such as the role played by the data subject in public life, that the interference with his fundamental rights is justified by the preponderant interest of the general public in having, on account of its inclusion in the list of results, access to the information in question.
Because the Court's decision specifically said that a relevant factor should be "the role played by the data subject in public life," Google is reluctant to exclude links about politicians and other prominent people.
Although, as a Lords select committee has just pointed out in an admirable demolition of the judgment: "It is wrong in principle to leave to search engines the task of deciding many thousands of individual cases against criteria as vague as 'particular reasons, such as the role played by the data subject in public life'".
The basic moral principle underlying these laws is the requirement of informed consent for processing by the data subject.
Decisions on whether information should be removed from search engines depend "on the nature of the information in question and its sensitivity for the data subject's private life and on the interest of the public in having that information, an interest which may vary, in particular, according to the role played by the data subject in public life".
