French data regulator rejects Google’s right-to-be-forgotten appeal
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#N32P)
Search engine's attempt to block French order to apply delistings to its google.com domain, not just its European sites, dismissed in ground-breaking case
Google's appeal against the global enforcement of "right to be forgotten" removals has been rejected by the French data regulator.
The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Liberti(C)s (CNIL) ordered Google in May to apply RTBF removals not only to the company's European domains such as google.co.uk or google.fr, but to the search engine's global domain google.com.
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