Google refuses the law "right to be forgotten"

Two years ago, the European Court of Justice made the decision that citizens of the G-29 countries would have the possibility to request the removal of private information from search engines, which is now more commonly known as the “ right to I forget. " Despite this, when these links are removed by these requests, they are only removed from the European Union, that is, that in search engines, such as Google, in the rest of the world, they would still be in force.

Google refuses the law "right to be forgotten"

In this way, the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL) launched an order against Google to impose that it remove such links from Google Search that are related to the right to be forgotten worldwide and not only in the European Union.

For its part, Google rejected this order and this past Thursday it gave the announcement that it has filed an appeal before the French Supreme Administrative Court. Google Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker said in a statement: “For hundreds of years it has been accepted that a country has no right to impose its rules on citizens of other countries; therefore information that is illegal in one country may be perfectly legal in another"

According to close sources, they clarify that Google has reviewed almost a total of 1, 500, 000 web pages in Europe and 40% of the results obtained have been eliminated. While in France alone, 300, 000 pages have been revised and almost 50% have been deleted. “Following the suggestions of the European regulatory entities, if we detect that you are in France and do a search for someone who has removed a link protected by the right to be forgotten, you will not be able to see it in Google Search, regardless of the domain you are using; although anyone who is outside the European Union, where there are no such laws on the right to be forgotten, will continue to see the link when performing the same search from non-European domains, ”Walker concluded.

Despite these explanations, the latest CNIL order requires Google to apply " its interpretation of French law in all versions of Google Search worldwide", to which Walker stated " we do not agree with this request. This order can lead to a race to the abyss worldwide, which would harm access to information that is completely legitimate in each person's country. We have received requests from different governments to remove content globally for different reasons and we have resisted. ”