French Regulator Pressures Google To Apply ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Globally

A French date collection regulator is pressuring Google to expand globally a right to be forgotten.  Google currently grants de-listing requests to European users.  “In May last year, the European Court of Justice ruled that European residents can ask search engines to delete results that turn up under a search for their name when they are out of date, irrelevant or inflammatory – the so-called right to be forgotten.”  EU watchdogs are currently pushing Google to implement a global policy that would give users the right to be forgotten.  Google is currently working with regulators to try to find the best way to comply with these recent regulatory decisions. 

See Leila Abboud and Julia Fioretti, Update 2-French watchdog pressures Google on “right to be forgotten,” Reuters, June 12, 2015.