Paris (AFP) - Google rejected a French demand to globally apply the so-called right to be forgotten, which requires the company to remove links to certain information about users if asked.It was responding to a call by France's national data protection authority, CNIL, to globally implement a May 2014 ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that allows people to ask search engines to delist links with personal information about them.The ruling applies when the online information is deemed "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive"."While the right to be forgotten may now be the law in Europe, it is not the law globally," Google's global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer said in a blog post."We believe that no one country should have the authority to control what content someone in a second country can access."In its post, Google branded the French request "a troubling development that risks serious chilling effects on the web"."If the CNIL's proposed approach were to be embraced as the standard for Internet regulation, we would find ourselves in a race to the bottom.
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