No can do: Google issued a flat out no to the French national data protection authority's global right to be forgotten demand. Photo: Reuters
PARIS: Google rejected a French demand to globally apply the so-called right to be forgotten, which requires the company to remove links to certain information about users if asked.
It was responding to a call by France’s national data protection authority, CNIL, to globally implement a May 2014 ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that allows people to ask search engines to delist links with personal information about them.
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