French authorities rejected Google’s request for an exemption to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) order to apply Europe’s “right to be forgotten” ruling to the world-wide web. Google has been complying with removal requests only within the country originating the request. (THE VERGE, September 21, 2015,by Nick Statt)
Google had been using the a loophole that allowed searchers to find out forbidden information. The company “continued to display the disputed links in response to searches performed on google.com, giving anyone who wanted uncensored search results an easy way around the court ruling.” The French agency ruled against Google’s limiting the right to be forgotten only to some domains made it too easy to circumvent the CJEU order. (PC World, September 21, 2015, by Peter Sayer of IDG News Service)
Google cannot appeal the ruling in France but is expected to proceed with an appeal to the supreme court for administrative justice the Conseil d’Etat. Google said “…we respectfully disagree with the idea that one national data protection authority can assert global authority to control the content that people can access around the world.” (The Guardian, September 21, 2015, by Samuel Gibbs)