French court refers ‘right to be forgotten’ dispute to top EU court


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 20 Jul 2017

(FILES) This file photo taken on February 11, 2016 in London, shows the logo of US technology company and search engine Google displayed on screens. Google is not liable for 1.115 billion euros ($1.272 billion) in unpaid taxes claimed by the French state, a French court ruled on July 12, 2017, saying the internet giant's Irish subsidiary is not taxable in France. / AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL

PARIS: EU judges will have to decide whether Alphabet's Google has to remove certain web search results globally to comply with a previous privacy ruling after France's supreme administrative court referred the issue to the top EU court. 

Google has gone head to head with CNIL, the French data protection authority, over the territorial scope of the so-called "right to be forgotten", which requires the world's biggest search engine to remove inadequate or irrelevant information from web results under searches for people's names. 

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