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In our view, is a claim made by a citizen against Google Spain S.L. (Google) and a newspaper by the lack of attention to the right of opposition of interest. Citizens exercised the right to oppose the processing of their personal data to Google. In particular, requested the Elimination of your personal data and health (related to an accident in which he suffered injury) which appeared on the Internet using the Google search tool. Of special interest is the identification of phases that performs the AEPD in relation to the process of the Google search engine: firstly, the words collection phase key that it develops from a consistent and unnoticed by the user through a few devices that constantly surfing the net, visiting web sites that are and analyzing its content. During this visit, these devices extracted words which considered useful and include them in a list with reference to the address of the web site where the they extracted. Secondly, comparison of words that AEPD this phase is carried out via a comparison between the words included by the user as a criterion of search and list which includes the learned words and references to web sites, as noted by facilitating the person concerned a results list that includes references to websites in which appear the words of the search criteria, ordering in attention to the greater or lesser relevance of the match. The following arguments of the AEPD are also interesting: first-language of drafting documents / geographical location the Spanish version of the search service allows you to discriminate your search results based on the language of drafting documents or the geographical location of the web servers that host them.

In this way, the user can decide your search results refer to pages of Spain, limiting page main search engine, or by using the advanced search functionality. Second.-technical means in Spain for providing the search service to Spanish users, it is prerequisite used technical means located in Spanish territory. Third.-service aimed specifically at the territory Spanish view of AEPD, the search service is specifically aimed at the Spanish territory on the basis of the following facts:-the language of the page is written in Spanish language. -The domain under which hosts the service of search engine Google in Spain is. is, territorial domain corresponding to Spain. -The results of Google searches that appear are aimed at users located in Spanish territory. These arguments led to the AEPD estimating the claim made by the citizen. Audea security from the legal department information source: AEPD