France’s privacy watchdog has rejected Google’s attempt to reverse a ruling that the “right to be forgotten” should be applied across the world rather than just in Europe.
The Data Protection Act 1998 was enacted to bring British law into line with the EU data protection directive of 1995. Since then, the rate at which technology has advanced has been astronomical, resulting in a surge of innovative ways in which businesses can commercially exploit personal data.
One year after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that people could ask Google to remove links in search results for their name, the tech giant has become increasingly unhappy. Meanwhile, everyone is pondering how broadly the new European right should apply.
