Google will not have to apply Europe's right to be forgotten law globally, the European Union's top court ruled on September 24. Google only needs to remove links from its search results for 28 member countries of the European Union — and not elsewhere — after receiving an appropriate request to do so. Why it matters: It ends worries around free speech. Google was concerned that if one country started dictating Google search results for everyone else, it would be a slippery slope: meaning that other countries would start doing it as well. Where did this case come from? The ruling comes from a dispute between Google and the French Data Privacy Regulator, CNIL. In 2015, CNIL had ordered Google to globally remove some search listings containing damaging or false information about a person. Google refused to do so, and only removed the links in question from its search engine's EU sub-domains. The company stated that the right to be forgotten does not mean that search listings be removed without any geographical limitations. For this, CNIL tried to impose a €100,000 penalty on Google, which the company appealed to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ). Who has the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF)? Citizens of the 28 member countries of the European Union. Europeans have had the right to request that links containing sensitive personal information about them be removed from search engines since 2014, when the ECJ passed a ruling. The GDPR, which came into effect…
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