  In one sense, the debate about RtE (formerly referred to as the RTBF debate) would now seem moot, in Europe at least, following the CJEU’s 2014 ruling and its later approval of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was adopted by the EU in April 2016 and went into effect in May 2018. Yet, a new and different kind of debate concerning RtE has since replaced the original – viz., a dispute about (i) how RtE should be implemented in the EU, especially in light of what some have criticized as the “vague” guidelines given to SECs; and (ii) whether RtE needs to be universally applied to be effective. With respect to (i), Google and other SECs claimed that the CJEU did not provide sufficiently clear and precise criteria for guiding them in determining which requests for removal/deletion merit serious consideration and which do not. So, Google and other SECs continue to examine RtE requests on a case-by-case basis.