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Google is going to Europe's top court in its legal fight against an order requiring it to extend "right to be forgotten" rules to its search engines globally.
The technology giant is set for a showdown at the European Union Court of Justice in Luxembourg on Tuesday with France's data privacy regulator over an order to remove search results worldwide upon request.
The dispute pits data privacy concerns against the public's right to know, while also raising thorny questions about how to enforce differing legal jurisdictions when it comes to the borderless internet.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday September 14 2018, @12:29AM
Not quite that simple. You could see this as an argument against the existence of multi-national corporations. If Google didn't have business interests in the EU, it wouldn't be affected by their legal decisions. Since it does, perhaps it should obey whatever they decide their laws are.
IOW, since the Google in France is the same company as the Google in the US, if the French law says you can't say some particular thing anywhere, then Google is bound by that decision, because it's a French company. The solution is to split Google up into different companies in different legal jurisdictions.
I'm not at all sure that's a bad solution.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.