Google LLC – €5,000,000 Fine (Sweden, 2020)

Original Fine Summary: The Swedish data protection authority has fined Google LLC € 7 million for failing to adequately comply with its obligations regarding the right of data subjects to have search results removed from the results list. Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten had already completed a review in 2017 of the way in which Google deals with the right of individuals to have search results removed from Google's search engine and that Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten had instructed Google to remove a number of search results. In addition, data inspections stated that it had initiated a further review of Google's practices in 2018 after it received indications that several of the results that should have been removed still appeared in search results. Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten also objected to Google's current practice of informing web site owners about which results Google is removing from search results, specifically which link has been removed and who is behind the request for removal from the list, as this is without legal basis. Update: On November 23th, 2020, after an appeal against the fine, the The Administrative Court of Stockholm announced that it had rejected Google LLC´s appeal. However the court reduced the fine from a total of SEK 75 million (approx. EUR 7 million) to SEK 52 million (approx. EUR 5 million).