Europe Wants Right-to-be Forgotten to Go Globally
Europe's privacy regulatory body says that online users have the "right-to-be forgotten" by a search engine not only in europe but wolrdwide.
"From the legal and technical analysis we have been doing, it should include the dot coms. That is all that we are saying," the head of the EU's main privacy regulatory body, the article 29 working party, Isabelle Falque-Pirrotin, told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday.
That would add pressure for Google, which would also have to de-list any link from its main Google.com site in the US and not just from its European-based affiliates like Google.co.uk or others.
Google chief Eric Schmidt has earlier said such rights should only be applied to domains based inside the EU.
The Luxembourg-based court concluded it was reasonable to ask Google to amend searches based on a person's name if the data is irrelevant, out of date, inaccurate, or an invasion of privacy.
As of Tuesday, Google has received some 174,226 requests to have links removed since the Court's ruling. Most of the requests are from France (34,632), followed by Germany (29,528), and the UK (22,467).
Falque-Pirrotin's announcement is part of a larger set of 13 guidelines for the search engines to follow on how to properly apply the ruling. The complete list is set for publication before the end of the week.
MEPs in Strasbourg on Thursday are also set to vote on a resolution on how tackle Internet dominance and monopolies, a decision that could force Google to merge its search engine business from its commercial activities.
That would add pressure for Google, which would also have to de-list any link from its main Google.com site in the US and not just from its European-based affiliates like Google.co.uk or others.
Google chief Eric Schmidt has earlier said such rights should only be applied to domains based inside the EU.
The Luxembourg-based court concluded it was reasonable to ask Google to amend searches based on a person's name if the data is irrelevant, out of date, inaccurate, or an invasion of privacy.
As of Tuesday, Google has received some 174,226 requests to have links removed since the Court's ruling. Most of the requests are from France (34,632), followed by Germany (29,528), and the UK (22,467).
Falque-Pirrotin's announcement is part of a larger set of 13 guidelines for the search engines to follow on how to properly apply the ruling. The complete list is set for publication before the end of the week.
MEPs in Strasbourg on Thursday are also set to vote on a resolution on how tackle Internet dominance and monopolies, a decision that could force Google to merge its search engine business from its commercial activities.
