  What is RtE, and why has it been controversial from the point of view of moral accountability issues for SECs? We can trace the origin of what eventually became the RtE debate to 2010, when Mario Costeja González requested that Google remove a link included in its list of returns for online searches of his name (see, for example, Google Spain SL, Google Inc. 2014). The link in question was to an article in a Spanish newspaper (La Vanguardia) about a home foreclosure that occurred 16 years earlier. González, a Spanish citizen, petitioned Spain’s National Data Protection Agency, to have the link removed. He argued that the information about his foreclosure, which was still prominently displayed in Google’s list of search returns for “Mario González,” was no longer “relevant.” Although the Spanish court ruled in González’s favor in 2010, many critics were unsure that this court’s ruling would also hold in other EU countries. So, these critics were not surprised when Google appealed the Spanish court’s ruling.