Google refuses French order to apply “right to be forgotten” globally
▻http://www.euractiv.com/sections/infosociety/google-refuses-french-order-apply-right-be-forgotten-globally-316736
Google is refusing to bow to an order from the French privacy watchdog to scrub search results worldwide when users invoke their “right to be forgotten” online [1], it said on Thursday (30 July), exposing itself to possible fines.
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“We have taken note of Google’s arguments which are mostly of a political nature. The CNIL, on the other hand, has relied on a strictly legal reasoning,” said a spokeswoman.
Google warned that applying the right to be forgotten globally would trigger a “race to the bottom” where “the Internet would only be as free as the world’s least free place”.
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Implementing a European, not global, right to be forgotten
▻http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2015/07/implementing-european-not-global-right.html
We believe that no one country should have the authority to control what content someone in a second country can access. We also believe this order is disproportionate and unnecessary, given that the overwhelming majority of French internet users—currently around 97%—access a European version of Google’s search engine like google.fr, rather than Google.com or any other version of Google.
As a matter of principle, therefore, we respectfully disagree with the CNIL’s assertion of global authority on this issue and we have asked the CNIL to withdraw its Formal Notice.