Google Fined by French Privacy Agency for Not Removing Links
- Google to pay 100,000 euros for not removing links from site
- Fine follows EU court ruling setting out right to be forgotten
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Google was fined 100,000 euros ($112,000) by France’s data-protection authority for failing to remove “right-to-be-forgotten” requests from global search results.
The agency, CNIL, ordered Google to remove links after it got several complaints from people who wanted the search engine to delete search results that pointed to personal information about them. While Google removed links from its French ".fr" domain, it didn’t take them off the ".com" domain visible to European web users.