Google defies French 'right to be forgotten'.

• Position: PRIVACY - Brief article

Google has refused to follow an order from the French protection authority, the CNIL, to delete search results globally when users invoke their "right to be forgotten" online, risking fines from European countries.

In May 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled that European residents can request that search engines delete links about them from search engine results. Google complied and has since received more than 250,000 removal requests, according to its transparency report. It has accepted about 41% of them. In France, more than 60,000 requests have been made, more than from any other country, according to the New York Times. About half of those links were removed, according to Google.

However, it has limited...