French privacy regulators have told Google they must apply a European data protection ruling to its global domains. Google have said they will not comply, reports SFGate.
Last year Europe’s top court ruled that people could request links about them to be removed from internet search results. This right-to-be-forgotten ruling, has placed Google in opposition to French regulators, who say the search engine will face financial penalties if it fails to comply.
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Other search engines are also required to adhere to these new regulations.
Google is the world’s most popular search engine, and it holds an approximate 90 percent share in Europe.
Although Google has agreed to remove links on its European domains, it will not complete the action by making this global, meaning Europeans will only have the ‘right-to-be-forgotten’ within Europe.
It is thought that Google will fight the case in local courts, a process which could take several years.
Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel has criticized the French decision.
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“If the (commission’s) proposed approach were to be embraced as the standard for Internet regulation, we would find ourselves in a race to the bottom,” Fleischer wrote. “In the end, the Internet would only be as free as the world’s least free place.”
The French regulators have said of Google’s stance:
“We note that Google’s arguments are partly political […] Those of (the commission), in turn, were based strictly on legal reasoning.”
Europe’s right-to-be-forgotten ruling was made May 2014. Since then, more than 60,000 requests have been made from France – more than from any other country.
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Internet security has also been in the news in China this week, with the Chinese government planting police officials in the offices of internet firms and websites. For more on this story, see here.
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