The French DPA fines Google

The French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) fines Google for data protection violation. In May 2014, the European Court of Justice had decided, that citizens could request search engines to delist inadequate or irrelevant web search results of themselves; the so-called “right-to-be-forgotten” was born.

The CNIL has now fined the US search engine 100.000 Euros over the right-to-be-forgotten, since Google just delisted web search results regionally, for instance only accross their European websites, such as google.fr and not also on the google.com website. By delisting web search results of a person only regionally, the data subject will practically not be able to exercise her/his right-to-be-forgotten efficiently. Search engines should instead delist search results from all their domains.