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title: "Case C-136/17: judgment of 24 September 2019"
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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](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/about#review)

- **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](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/article/9), [Article 10](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/article/10), [Article 17](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/article/17), [Article 21](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/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.

## Official source

- [Case C-136/17 on CURIA](https://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-136/17&language=en)
- [Judgment on EUR-Lex (CELEX 62017CJ0136)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62017CJ0136)

Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

Only the judgment as published by the Court of Justice is authoritative. This is reference material, not legal advice.

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