Google wins round in fight against privacy right to be forgotten globally

Google has been fighting efforts led by France's privacy watchdog to globalise the right to be forgotten.

Google shouldn’t have to apply the so-called right to be forgotten globally, an adviser to the EU’s top court said in a boost for the US giant’s fight with a French privacy regulator over where to draw the line between privacy and freedom of speech.

While backing Google’s stance, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar of the EU Court of Justice said that search engine operators must take every measure available to remove access to links to outdated or irrelevant information about a person on request. The Luxembourg-based court follows such advice in a majority of its final rulings, which normally come