Google does not need to argue its right to be forgotten in the world, European judge

Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally, ruled the European Court of Justice Tuesday.

The highest court in Europe has examined two separate cases involving the search engine: determining whether to delete sensitive personal data worldwide or only in Europe; as well as it should automatically delete search results containing sensitive information.

This follows an earlier decision on the so-called "right to be forgotten" – a five-year-old decision that granted European citizens the right to ask search engines, such as Google, to delete information. sensitive about them, such as past crimes.

In 2016, the CNIL, a privacy watchdog, fined Google 100,000 euros (109,889) for refusing to remove confidential information from search results on the Internet, at the request of site "right to forget".

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