https://wccftech.com/google-triumphant-in-the-right-to-be-forgotten-case/

In a momentous ruling that clarified its 2014 judgement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) asserted today that the “right to be forgotten” applies only within the geographical boundaries of the 28-nation bloc constituting the European Union. Consequently, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is not obligated to impose a global de-listing of search results deemed to be “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant, or excessive” by EU citizens who invoke this right.

The ECJ ruled that EU law does not automatically apply outside the legal jurisdiction of the bloc, thereby, rejecting the viewpoint that favored an expansive interpretation of European laws and precedents. The court, however, imposed an obligation upon Google and other search engines to take material steps to “discourage” external access, in geographic terms, to search results de-listed in the EU under the right to erasure. Thomas Hughes of Article 19 – an organization that represented in this case a coalition of free speech proponents – termed the decision a “victory for global freedom of expression”. He went on to add that, “Courts or data regulators in the UK, France or Germany should not be able to determine the search results that internet users in America, India or Argentina get to see.”