Remove or anonymise news articles about you online

We do not pay publishers to remove articles and we do not recommend it. We work with legal arguments and the documents in your case.

You can go to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and, in the meantime, ask Google to stop showing the article when your name is searched.

It helps a lot. If you do not have it, we explain how to request it from the court or from your lawyer.

Sometimes, especially when it is old, inaccurate or about proceedings that ended in dismissal or acquittal. Most often the publisher agrees to anonymise or update it, and the search engine stops showing it when your name is searched. If the article is recent, accurate and of public interest, we tell you so and do not take on the case.

Removing it means the publisher deletes it. Anonymising it means replacing your name with initials, which is what most publishers accept because the article stays online. Updating it means adding how the case ended, for example that it was dropped, which is very useful when the original article told only part of the story.

With a written request to the publisher explaining who you are, which article it is, why it is no longer of interest or is inaccurate, and exactly what you are asking for. It relies on the GDPR, on the case law of Spain's Supreme Court and Constitutional Court on digital newspaper archives, and on the documents in your case. No pressure or threats, only arguments.

Usually between three and ten weeks, depending on the publisher and the route. When we exercise your data protection rights, the publisher has one month to respond, which can be extended by two more months in complex cases. If a complaint to the AEPD is needed, it takes longer.

It depends on the number of articles, the publishers involved and whether a complaint to the AEPD is needed. We analyse your case for free and send you a fixed quote in writing after the free analysis, before we start. There are no generic rates because every article is different.

Yes, and it costs nothing. The problem is that many publishers do not reply, or send a generic refusal if the request is not well argued. We know the criteria the courts and the AEPD apply, and that makes a big difference to the outcome.

If the article published inaccurate facts that harm you, you have the right of reply under Spain's Organic Law 2/1984. It must be sent within seven calendar days of publication and the publisher must publish the correction within the following three days. If that deadline has passed, you can still request correction or erasure through data protection law.

It is one of the cases with the best prospects. The fact that the article still identifies you years later, when the proceedings were dropped or you were acquitted, is a strong argument for anonymisation or an update, and for Google to stop showing it. We will need the decision to drop the case or the judgment.

Data protection law protects individuals, not companies. For a company we work with the publisher if there is inaccurate data, use the right of reply, take action for defamation where it applies and, if the article cannot be removed, push the result down in search.