Google is not required to apply an EU"right to be forgotten" to its search engine domains outside Europe, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision.
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. If France had won, it could have deepened a rift between Europe and the United States, which is home to most of the internet's behemoths and whose President Donald Trump has railed against what he sees as EU meddling in US business.
"It's a balanced decision. You can't impose extraterritorial effects when it comes to de-referencing a person," said Yann Padova, a data privacy lawyer with the Baker McKenzie firm in Paris who was not involved in arguing the case.
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