Right to be forgotten: a Transatlantic Dialogue
Jane Lambert On 12 June 2014 La Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) . the French data protection authority, issued a notice requiring Google to apply de-listing from all platforms of its search engine such as Google Sierra Leone and Google Mongolia and not just those like Google UK , Google France and Google Deutschland that are marketed to residents of EU member states. In his post Implementing a European, not global, right to be forgotten 30 July 2915 Google's privacy counsel Peter Flecischer stated that Google had refused to implement that notice and had asked the CNIL to withdraw it. It is possible that the CNIL will change its mind and do so but it is more likely that it won't. In that case the President of the Commission could nominate a Rapporteur and ask him or her to draft a report recommending sanctions to be imposed on Google for such non-compliance. Google could of course...