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High Court hears the first ‘right to be forgotten’ case

THE first “right to be forgotten” case began at the High Court today.

A businessman is attempting to get Google to remove media reports of a past conviction from its search results.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of “conspiracy to account falsely” in the late 1990s.

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