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Google and France clash over freedom of speech
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Google clashed with France in a top EU court yesterday arguing it feared for freedom of speech if forced to apply Europe鈥檚 鈥渞ight to be forgotten鈥 principle worldwide.
鈥淭he court is hearing a wide range of testimonies today, which is highly unusual for a case like this,鈥 said a legal source at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, on condition of anonymity.
The two sides are battling over a shock 2014 decision at the same court, that imposed a right for individuals, under certain conditions, to have references to them scrubbed from search engine results.
The US tech giant firmly opposed the decision, but complied with the ruling by delisting search references once requested across its European domains, such as Google.fr or Google.de 鈥 but not Google.com or domains outside the European Union.
France鈥檚 data regulator, the Commission Nationale de l鈥橧nformatique et des Libertes (CNIL), opposed the distinction and said the firm should apply the delisting to all extensions, regardless of the national domain name.
In 2016, CNIL fined Google 100,000 euros (US$116,000) for non-compliance and Google appealed the case to France鈥檚 highest court, which in turn has referred to the ECJ for an opinion.
Google argues that its application of the right to be forgotten is already effective in France for well over 99 percent of searches.
It also adds that the company has imposed geo-blocking technology for EU searches that attempt to use non-EU domains to access de-listed information.
Lawyers for CNIL believe that a global implementation for the EU鈥檚 鈥渞ight to be forgotten鈥 is the only the way to ensure European rights are upheld.
Yesterday, the EU court heard a long list of stakeholders, including lawyers from CNIL, Google as well as representatives from human rights groups that fear abuses of the 鈥渞ight to be forgotten鈥 rule by authoritarian states outside the bloc.
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