Google ‘right to be forgotten’ law applies only in EU, court rules
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/09/24/google-right-to-be-forgotten-law-applies-only-in-eu-court-rules/
BRUSSELS — Google won a major case in the European Union on Tuesday, when the bloc’s top court ruled that the U.S. internet giant doesn’t have to extend the EU’s “right to be forgotten” rules to its search engines outside the region.
The case stems from a 2014 ruling that said people have the right to control what appears when their name is searched online. They can ask Google, for example, to remove a link. The French privacy regulator then wanted that rule applied to all of Google’s domains, even outside the EU, and asked the EU’s top court for advice.