Google RTBF fine overturned by French court

27/03/2020 | Bloomberg

Google has won its appeal against a right to be forgotten (RTBF) decision in France. The French Council of State, Conseil d’État, overruled the earlier decision fining Google ‎€100,000 about a 2016 RTBF case. The court decided French law doesn’t allow French DPA, the CNIL, to order search results to be removed globally, and can only call for European search results to be removed. The CNIL said it will update its RTBF guidelines.

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