Google Wins Privacy Case: ‘Right to be Forgotten’ Applies Only in EU
Google scored a major overseas victory Tuesday, as Europe’s highest court ruled that the “right to be forgotten” online only applies inside the European Union, reports Courthouse News Service.
In the rulings, the European Court of Justice ruled that “there is no obligation under EU law, for a search engine operator who grants a request for de-referencing made by a data subject … to carry out such a de-referencing on all the versions of its search engine.”
The dispute was between Google and France’s Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties over how Google complies with requests for link removals.
Read the Courthouse News article.
