Google: ECJ rules judgement in favour of the multinational tech giant

On September 24, Google won a huge case in the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The top court ruled a judgment that the multinational technology company does not have to comply with the EU's “right to be forgotten” rules in its search engines outside the region. The present case comes from a ruling in 2014 which stated that people have the right to monitor the results when their name is searched on the internet. People have the authority to ask Google to remove a link. Previously the regulator of France wanted the same rule to apply in all the domains of Google. It was then sent to the EU's top court for advice. 

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The case in the EU court

While the EU's top court has stated that Google does not have to comply with their rule in all domains, it, however, said that the search engine must still uphold some measures. The EU top court said that the company must discourage its users from outside the European Union to find that specific information. This case also sheds light on the need to find a middle ground between data privacy and protection concerns with the public's right to information. Furthermore, the questions were also raised about how to imply varying jurisdictions when it comes to the internet. The court also mentioned that the “right to be forgotten” still exists in EU but it was illegal to apply the same rule in the countries that fall outside the bloc. This ruling on Tuesday is final. 

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Google's reaction

Peter Fleischer, the Senior Privacy Counsel in Google responded to the ruling by saying that it was “good” to see ECJ agreeing to arguments made by the US internet giant. He also stressed that Google has worked diligently to reach a balance between people's right to access the information but also their right to privacy. The previous ruling of 2014 gave people the power to delete their personal information and old links that came as the search engine results when their name was searched, within the bloc. However, people who wish to access the information that is removed in the EU can change their domain from google.fr to google.com.

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(inputs from AP)