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France fines Google for restricting 'right to be forgotten'
http://www.dw.com/en/france-fines-google-for-restricting-right-to-be-forgotten/a-19142001Google has decried demands to expand the reach of the European Court of Justice's "right to be forgotten" ruling. France's data protection agency said citizens have the right to privacy as enshrined in international law.
France fines Google for restricting 'right to be forgotten'
Lewis Sanders IV
24.03.2016
France's National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) on Thursday said it fined Google 100,000 euros ($111,790) for not delisting web search results across all of its domains under the "right to be forgotten" ruling.
In 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that European citizens had the right to request search engines, such as Alphabet's Google and Microsoft's Bing, remove "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive" search results linked to their name.
Google complied by partially delisting search results on its domains, specifically targeting its European sites, such as France's google.fr and Germany's google.de.
The search giant in June 2015 claimed that if it fully complied with the French agency's regulations, it would make the Internet as "free as the world's least free place."
