  In 2012, the European Commission (EC) proposed a revised Data-Protection Regulation (Article 17) for the (former) EU Directive, which included specific provisions for the removal (i.e., the “rectification, erasure, or blocking”) of personal data that was irrelevant (as well as personal data that was “inaccurate,” “inadequate,” or “excessive”). The EU Parliament approved the EC’s recommendations in 2013, after making a few minor modifications to Article 17 and renaming the “right” in question the “Right to Erasure.” Perhaps not surprisingly, the newly revised RtE regulation was challenged by Google and other corporations operating in Europe. However, in May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) upheld the Spanish court’s (2010) ruling in the González case, also confirming Article 17 of the updated EU Directive on Data Protection. The high court’s ruling confirmed that citizens residing in all EU nations have the right, under certain conditions, to request that search engine operators remove links to some kinds of personal information about them that are “no longer relevant.” The CJEU also noted, however, that RtE is not an absolute right; for example, this right would have to be balanced against other rights, including “freedom of expression” (see the EU’s “Fact Sheet on the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Ruling”).