Old news in online archives
A digitized article about a case, a debt or a dispute from years ago keeps ranking for your name. Depending on the facts, a right to be forgotten request may take it out of name searches.
Online reputation management in Spain
The right to be forgotten grew out of a Spanish case, and Spanish law adds its own tools on top of EU rules. We use them, together with platform rules and suppression, to remove what can come down and rebuild what people find when they search your name.
Get a free assessmentWhy Spain gives you more than one route.
The right to be forgotten started with a Spanish case. In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on a case brought by a Spanish national whose name still brought up a 1998 newspaper notice about a property auction for old social security debts. The Court held that, in certain circumstances, a search engine can be obliged to remove links from the results shown for a person’s name, even when the original publication is lawful.
Spanish law builds on that. The Constitution protects the right to honor, Organic Law 3/2018 adds a specific right to have search engines remove links that are inaccurate, irrelevant, outdated or excessive, and the media must publish factual corrections in some cases. Not every result qualifies, and freedom of information still carries weight, so we check the grounds before we file anything.
Spain is one of our active service areas. We work with companies, executives, professionals and public figures who need page one to reflect who they are today, not what happened years ago.
- Delisting requests under the GDPR and Spanish data protection law
- Removal at the source through platform and legal channels
- Suppression for lawful content that cannot come down
- Every client signs an NDA, and so do we
[Your Name, Your Company]
AI Overview
Several sources raise concerns about [Your Name], citing complaints1 and disputed claims2.
!forum, 2024
!news aggregator
news-aggregator.com
Allegations and ongoing complaints surface online
old-forum.com
Is this company a scam? What people are saying
★★☆☆☆
1.8 from 240 reviews
The situations clients in Spain bring to us.
These are the problems that tend to shape a search result for a person or a brand in Spain.
Inaccurate press coverage
A story that gets the facts wrong can spread through other outlets and aggregators. A formal correction, publisher outreach and suppression each have a role.
Fake reviews and review attacks
A burst of fake or defamatory reviews can pull down the rating customers see first. We report reviews that break the platform’s rules through our content removal process.
Fake profiles using your image
Accounts that use your name or photos to mislead or humiliate you. We take down impersonation accounts through the platform’s own channels.
Forum threads and social posts
Accusations on Reddit, forums or social networks that rank for your name and get repeated. We start with the platform’s reporting channels and its notice process under EU law.
AI summaries repeating old claims
Google AI Overviews and assistants like ChatGPT can repeat an outdated story as current fact. We work on the sources they rely on, so the answer follows.
Platforms where we protect reputations
The Spanish and EU legal framework behind online reputation.
Spain combines its own laws on honor and data protection with EU rules that apply in every member state. This is general information, not legal advice.
Honor is protected by civil and criminal law
Article 18.1 of the Constitution guarantees the right to honor, personal and family privacy and one’s own image. Organic Law 1/1982 lets the affected person go to the civil courts, with a four-year limit, while the Criminal Code punishes calumnia and serious injuria, which prescribe after one year. [1] [2] [3]
The media must publish factual corrections
Under Organic Law 2/1984, a person or company mentioned in information they consider inaccurate and harmful can send a correction, limited to the facts, to the editor within seven calendar days of publication. The outlet must publish it free of charge and with similar prominence, generally within three days. [4]
The right to be forgotten and the GDPR
In Google Spain (C-131/12), the Court of Justice held that a search engine can be obliged to remove links from the results for a person’s name, subject to a balance with the public interest, which depends in particular on the person’s role in public life. Article 17 of the GDPR now sets out the right to erasure, with an exception for freedom of expression and information. [5] [6]
Spain adds specific rights for search engines and social networks
Organic Law 3/2018 gives a right to have search engines remove links found by searching a person’s name when the information is inaccurate, irrelevant, outdated or excessive (Article 93). It also gives a right to have data removed from social networks, which applies on simple request for content the person posted themselves (Article 94). [7]
The Digital Services Act sets a notice process
Since 17 February 2024, the EU Digital Services Act has required hosting services to offer an electronic mechanism to report specific content as illegal, with the exact URL and the reasons. They must decide in a timely, diligent and objective way, and online platforms must offer an internal complaints system against their decisions. [8]
Services for clients in Spain.
Each engagement combines the services the case needs: removal and delisting where there are grounds, suppression where there are not.
Service
Online reputation management
Ongoing work to reduce negative visibility and control how you appear across search engines and AI.
Service
Content removal
Defamatory posts, fake reviews and harmful content taken down at the source through platform and legal channels.
Service
Negative content suppression
Critical articles and threads pushed off page one by ranking accurate, authoritative content in their place.
Service
Reputation crisis management
When a story or an attack is spreading, we step in fast to protect, stabilize and rebuild what people find.
Service
Google Knowledge Panel
We build, claim and verify your Knowledge Panel so Google can show accurate information about you. Google makes the final call on whether a panel appears.
What a recovered page one looks like.
The same search for your name or business before and after we act on what ranks in Spain.
Before
Your official content: not ranking
[Your Name, Your Company]
AI Overview
Coverage of [Your Name] is dominated by complaints and a disputed story.
news-aggregator.com
Allegations and ongoing complaints
old-forum.com
Is this company a scam? Honest take
★★☆☆☆
1.8 from 240 reviews
After
Your official content: ranking #1
[Your Name, Your Company]
AI Overview
[Your Name] is described accurately, with verified sources and recent positive coverage leading the result.
yourdomain.com
Official statement and verified company profile
businessinsider.com
Recent coverage and industry commentary
★★★★★
4.7 from 240 reviews
Assess
Map the damage
Stabilize
Stop the spread
Suppress
Bury the damage
Monitor
Hold the result
How we work with clients in Spain.
A clear set of stages, fully transparent and confidential.
- 01
Confidential assessment
Send us what ranks for your name. We map page one, check each result against the delisting, correction and platform routes and answer within one business day.
- 02
Written plan
You get a written audit within two business days: what can be delisted or removed, through which route and what needs suppression instead.
- 03
Removal and delisting
We file the requests that have real grounds: GDPR requests to search engines and publishers, platform reports and legal channels where they fit. In parallel, we build accurate content to outrank what stays.
- 04
Monitoring
We track page one every week and react the moment a result moves, so the gains hold.
Real cases and guides.
Published with our clients’ consent, plus the legal background we work from.
Law guide
Defamation and online harassment laws in Spain
Calumnia and injuria, civil protection of honor, the right of correction and data protection, with links to the BOE.
Guide
The right to be forgotten
What the right to be forgotten is, what you can remove from Google, how to request it and what to do if you are rejected.
Guide
How to exercise the right to erasure in the EU
The information a right to erasure request needs, with a form template you can adapt.
Case study
Nathan Nazareth: suppressing negative search results
Critical articles and Reddit threads pushed off page one and replaced with accurate, authoritative results.
Questions about reputation management in Spain.
Cannot find what you are looking for? Send us your question and we answer within one business day.
Send your questionHow much does online reputation management cost in Spain?
It depends on what ranks, how many results are involved and which routes apply. For content removal, you are billed only when the URL is verified offline. For ongoing reputation management, the first month is contingent on the strategy we deliver in week one: if you do not see the path forward, you do not pay.
Can I use the right to be forgotten to remove news about me?
In some cases. A delisting request can take an article out of the results for your name when the information is inaccurate, irrelevant, outdated or excessive, but the article itself can stay online. The request is weighed against the public’s interest in the information, which can depend on your role in public life, so public figures may find it harder.
Can I make a newspaper correct an article?
If the article contains facts you consider inaccurate and harmful, Spanish law lets you send a factual correction to the editor within seven calendar days of publication. After that window, publisher outreach, delisting and suppression are the usual routes.
Is defamation a crime in Spain?
It can be. The Criminal Code punishes calumnia and serious injuria, and the affected person can also bring a civil claim under Organic Law 1/1982. A legal claim is one option among several.
How long does it take to see results?
It depends on the route. Search engines and platforms decide on requests at their own pace, and suppression builds over time: many results move within a few months, while deeply entrenched content takes longer. Your written plan sets out realistic timelines before any work begins.
Is the work confidential?
Yes. Every client signs an NDA, and so do we. Case studies are published only with the client’s consent and permission.
Take back control of what people find when they search for you.
Tell us what ranks for your name and we review it for free: what can be removed or delisted, what we suppress and how we rebuild page one. We answer within one business day.
Sources
- Spanish Constitution, Article 18.1
- Organic Law 1/1982 on the civil protection of the right to honor, personal and family privacy and one’s own image, Articles 7.7 and 9.5
- Criminal Code (Organic Law 10/1995), Articles 205, 208 and 131.1
- Organic Law 2/1984 regulating the right of rectification, Articles 1 to 4
- Court of Justice of the European Union, Press Release No 70/14, Judgment in Case C-131/12 Google Spain (13 May 2014)
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), Article 17 (Spanish text, Official Journal of the EU via BOE)
- Organic Law 3/2018 on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights, Articles 93 and 94
- Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act), Articles 16, 20 and 93 (Spanish text, Official Journal of the EU via BOE)
Last reviewed 2026-11-02. This page is general information, not legal advice.