Image: Shutterstock/achinthamb Image: Shutterstock/achinthamb GOOGLE IS NOT required to apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation to its search engine domains outside Europe, the EU’s top court has ruled.
The ruling stems from a dispute between Google and France’s privacy watchdog CNIL in 2015 when the tech giant was told it must de-list information from search results globally upon request, citing a “right to be forgotten”.The court ruled that, while a search engine operator such as Google must carry out “de-referencing” of links as demanded by a regulator or court in an EU state to all European versions of its sites, that “right to be forgotten” did not need to go further.
The CNIL case was seen as pitting an individual’s rights to privacy online against freedom of information and was perceived as posing a risk of escalating tensions between Europe and the US where much of the search engines are based.“It’s good to see that the court agreed with our arguments,” its lawyer, Peter Fleischer, said in a statement, adding that Google has worked “to strike a sensible balance between people’s rights of access to information and privacy”.
Google’s position was bolstered in January by a non-binding opinion from the EU court’s top legal advisor, advocate general Maciej Szpunar, that recommended the judges “should limit the scope of the de-referencing that search engine operators are required to carry out, to the EU”.
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