Google To Expand Right-to-Be-Forgotten Removals Following Pressure From Europe
Google will move to comply with Europe’s right-to-be-forgotten rule by removing links from all of its search websites across the globe, Bloomberg reports. A ruling in 2014 by the European Union’s top court granted the region’s citizens the right to ask Web-search engines to remove personal information about themselves.
Previously, when a person from a European Union country searched for information, Google had only scrubbed relevant results only from its EU sites that fall under the right-to-be-forgotten rule.
Now, results from requests originating inside the EU won’t show up on all of Google’s sites, Bloomberg reported. The rule won’t apply to searches from outside the EU.
Last year, Europe’s regulators pushed Google to expand the application of the rule to include websites outside of the EU.