Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The federal privacy commissioner says individuals have the right to have some information delisted from search engine results, but Google is refusing to comply.
In his decision in a long-running case that has been central to establishing the application of a “right to be forgotten” in Canada, privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne recommended Google de-list articles about a criminal charge that was dropped.
