The Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), France’s data regulation authority, has rejected Google’s appeal of an order that applies EU “right to be forgotten” laws to the company’s global Internet domain. Should Google refuse to comply with the CNIL ruling, the company could face considerable fines and sanctions.
Passed in 2014, the EU’s “right to be forgotten” law allows citizens who have had false, misleading or compromising information indexed by Google’s search engines to apply for its removal. In May, the CNIL ordered Google to extend those rules not only to European domains like Google.fr, but also to its global site Google.com. Failure to do so, the CNIL argued, would make it far too easy to circumvent the laws.
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