EU Court of Justice · 24 September 2019
Google v CNIL
In plain English
When a search engine grants a 'right to be forgotten' request, EU law requires it to delist the link on its versions for all EU Member States, not worldwide, and to take measures that discourage users in the EU from reaching it.
What the court ruled
where a search engine operator grants a request for de-referencing pursuant to those provisions, that operator is not required to carry out that de-referencing on all versions of its search engine, but on the versions of that search engine corresponding to all the Member States …
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