France rejects Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’ appeal, says compliance must be global

‘French data privacy regulator, CNIL, has turned down Google’s appeal against removing data on a global level from search engine results falling under the ‘right to be forgotten’ adopted in Europe.

The EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF) allows citizens to demand search engines delete links to pages that appear when searching their name if the information they contain is incorrect, outdated, irrelevant or damaging.

Google established a form where people can request removals after the European Court of Justice ruling in May 2014.

The US tech giant has revived 320,000 RTBF requests since then and fulfilled around 40 percent of them.’

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