Complainant – Court Ruling (Norway, 2021)

The complainant objected that when he searched for his name, search results concerning him were listed on Google. The search result linked to a news/consumer report where the complainant was interviewed in his role for a company he represented. The complainant filed a complaint with Datatilsynet, which rejected his complaint based on an assessment of the balancing of interests in Google's favour. The complainant then appealed the complaint to PVN. The PVN issued a split decision, where the majority agreed with Datatilsynet that the search result should not be delisted. In particular the following elements in the decision were emphasised: * None of the personal data concerned information covered by Article 9 or 10 GDPR. * The data subject was interviewed as part of his role in the business, and not as a private individual. * It had only been two years since the interview, and the data subject had the same role in the same company. * The interview gave a correct impression at the time it was published (though the company later won in court concerning the same case). Personvernnemda did not give the data subject's subjective feelings connected to the search result a decisive influence in the outcome.