Google fined by France over “Right to be Forgotten”

American internet search giants Google have been fined a sum of 100,000euros by the French data protection authority for not wiping out search results in response to a ruling related to European privacy. Google had to abide by de-listing inaccurate results under name searches across all its websites to uphold the Europeans' right to privacy, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty(CNIL) said in a statement. 

According to a ruling by the European Court of Justice in May 2014, people could approach search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing to remove irrelevant information from web results appearing under search results for people's names dubbed as the right to be forgotten. The mountain view based number one search engine has been at a tug-of-war with the authorities of European data protection over the ruling. Google did comply however but only exterminating results across its European sites google.de and google.frotherwise resulting in a breach of legal sanctions in free flow of information.

According to the report in May 2014, the CNIL had ordered Google to expand its application to all its domains including google.com since a switch from a regional domain to an international one would be possible in a matter of seconds. The CNIL said that contrary to Google's statements, de-listing all of Google's extensions did not restrict freedom of expression as it didn't heed to demands for any deletion of content from the internet.

However, a Google correspondent said the company had however worked hard to implement "right to be forgotten" ruling comprehensively across Europe.  They also added about disagreeing the statement by the CNIL about the authority to restrict content that people could access outside France, and Google did plan to appeal their ruling. It meant that any outsider trying to access de-listed content outside his/her region, nothing would be visible on any domains of Google including the international search engine when accessed from his resident region.

The CNIL however rejected that approach claiming that people's right to privacy shouldn't be restricted to geographical location of those viewing search results.