The European Court of Justice has ruled in Google's favour . According to the BBC , the Mountain View giant will be able to keep the content removed under the right to be forgotten globally , meaning it will only have to remove the links from its search results in Europe.
The dispute dates back to 2015, when French privacy regulator CNIL asked the company to globally remove results containing false or harmful content about a person. At the time, Google used its geo-blocking function only for European users, a measure that did not convince the regulator and ended in a fine of 100,000 euros by the French National Commission for albania phone number Information Technology and Civil Liberties and contested by Google. The dispute was referred from the French Council of State to the Court of the European Union.
were applied globally, it would be at risk of abuse by authoritarian governments.
According to Europa Press , the Court has stressed, on the one hand, that many countries do not contemplate the right to remove links or at least not in the same way and, on the other, that the right to data protection "does not constitute an absolute right", so a balance with other fundamental rights must be ensured , knowing that this balance varies "significantly" in different parts of the world.
"Since 2014, we have worked hard to implement the right to be forgotten in Europe and achieve a reasonable balance between people's rights to access information and their