On March 24, the French privacy regulator, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), fined Google 100,000 Euros and confirmed its intent to globalize the European right to be forgotten. Expanding this European privacy rule has unsettling implications for Internet freedom in a world with conflicting values. The European courts must reject CNIL’s attempt at international censorship that sets a dangerous precedent.
The European right to be forgotten has always had global implications. When a search engine determines that a website contains invasive information about a European citizen, it must delist the website link, regardless of whether the website has any connection to Europe or targets European audiences.
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