Google Pushes Back In EU Privacy Case

Google Inc GOOG GOOGL has been put through the paces in Europe recently. The company is under scrutiny for an antitrust case and its privacy practices are being questioned across the eurozone.

After being forced to adopt the EU's "right to be forgotten" law, Google was ordered to extend that rule to all of its websites, including those that are run in non-EU nations. However, Google is fighting back on this one; the company says one country's regulators shouldn't have jurisdiction across the globe.

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The Right To Be Forgotten

Last year, a European court ruled that EU citizens have the right to ask search websites to remove results associated with their name. The ruling forced Google and Microsoft Corporation MSFT to comply and delete search results for those who requested it. Since the court's decision, Google said it has since processed over 250,000 requests and removed data for just over 40 percent of those individuals.

France Wants More

In June, French data protection agency CNIL asked that search results be removed from all of Google's search engines, not just those based in Europe. CNIL officials argued that it's easy for users to switch from Google.fr, where results are removed, to Google.com, where they would be accessible. However, Google has appealed the decision saying that French regulators should not be allowed to make policies that extend across the world.

CNIL has said it will evaluate Google's appeal and make a decision within the next two months.