# OLG Köln - 15 U 340/25

- Type: News
- Source: GDPRhub
- Date: 2026-10-13
- Original: https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=OLG_Köln_-_15_U_340/25
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/599038
- Topics: Personal Data

## Summary

A court held that search engine operators must delist a search result under Article 17(1) GDPR only if they have violated their duty to review the content based on the data subject’s request. The data subject must prove the information is manifestly inaccurate. English Summary. Facts. A rapper (the data subject) requested the operators of a search engine (the defendants) to delist a search result in March 2022. When the rapper’s name and the word “Nazi” were entered in the search engine, the sea

## Full text

A court held that search engine operators must delist a search result under Article 17(1) GDPR only if they have violated their duty to review the content based on the data subject’s request. The data subject must prove the information is manifestly inaccurate. English Summary. Facts. A rapper (the data subject) requested the operators of a search engine (the defendants) to delist a search result in March 2022. When the rapper’s name and the word “Nazi” were entered in the search engine, the search results referred to an article about a person who was allegedly deeply involved in the neo-Nazi scene. The article contained a picture that suggested this person had managed the sales booth for the data subject’s fashion label at an event. The defendants refused to remove the search result. Following this, the data subject filed an action for injunctive relief requesting the search result to be delisted. The defendants blocked the search results after a witness had stated in a hearing before

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