Court of Justice judgment · Case C-136/17

GC and Others v Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Case: C-136/17
Court: Court of Justice
Date of judgment: 24 September 2019
ECLI: ECLI:EU:C:2019:773
Instrument: Directive 95/46/EC (pre-GDPR; reasoning still applied under the GDPR)
Provisions: Article 9, Article 10, Article 17, Article 21

Listed under "Related (earlier law or other instruments)": this judgment concerns earlier law or another instrument, not the GDPR alone.

Holding (summary, not the official text)

The ban on processing sensitive and criminal-offence data applies to search engines when they handle delisting requests; they must in principle delist such links unless a strict balancing, including the public's interest in the information, justifies keeping them.

Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

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