French Regulator Rejects Google Appeal on 'Right to Be Forgotten'
21 Setembro 2015 - 7:20AM
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PARIS—France's data-protection regulator on Monday rejected
Google Inc.'s appeal of its order to expand Europe's "right to be
forgotten" to Google's websites world-wide, setting up what is
likely to be an extended legal battle.
France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Liberté
s, or CNIL, said that Google must now adhere to a formal order in
May directing it to apply Europe's right to be forgotten to "all
domain names" of the search engine, including google.com—or face
possible sanctions proceedings.
Established just over a year ago by the European Union's Court
of Justice, the right to be forgotten gives European residents the
ability to request that search engines remove links that appear in
searches for their own name. Google has applied the ruling, but
only removed results from European domain names, like google.fr,
not google.com.
Google didn't immediately comment. In the past it has said it
would fight any order on a matter of principle. In France, the data
protection authority can issue initial fines of up to €150,000
($165,000)—a relatively small penalty compared with Google's annual
revenue of $66 billion. Any sanction can be appealed in a French
court.
In its July appeal directly to the regulator, Google argued that
applying the right beyond Europe could open the door to more
authoritarian governments attempting to apply Internet censorship
rules beyond their borders.
In its rejection Monday, the CNIL said that it wasn't seeking
extraterritorial application of the law, but simply application of
European law by companies doing business in Europe.
The CNIL and some other European regulators have said that
Google's approach makes it easy to find private information that
individuals have wanted to be removed by searching its non-European
sites, undermining the ruling in Europe.
Write to Sam Schechner at sam.schechner@wsj.com
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 21, 2015 06:05 ET (10:05 GMT)
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