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Google appeals Mexico's right to be forgotten decision in favor of Carlos Sánchez de la Peña related to family business dealings

According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is appealing of January 2015 decision of Mexico’s Federal Institute for the Access to Information, which ruled in favor of Carlos Sánchez de la Peña in his "right to be forgotten request" to have Google remove links to three articles (from searches of his name) that describe Moreira's father's business dealings and Mexico's bailout of several bad loans. IFAL didn't find that the public interest served by retaining the links to the news articles and ordered Google to remove the links from searches of Sánchez de la Peña 's name. According to the Wall Street Journal, "The most prominent of the links is to a 2007 article in the local magazine Fortuna about a lawsuit against Mr. Sánchez’s de la Peña’s late father, Salvador Sánchez Alcántara, by shareholders in the bus company Estrella Blanca. Mr. Sánchez de la Peña is named in the story." Moreover, "IFAI commissioners argued that Mr. Sánchez de la Peña met the privacy-law requirement that allows for the removal of information when its “persistence causes injury” even if the information was lawfully published."

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