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Google sticks to EU only application of ‘right to be forgotten’

January 19, 2015 admin accounts-on-its, chief-legal, continent, european, france-david, internet, key-profit, longer-relevant, mobile-phone, search-results, the-start-up, towards-the-end

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google is only removing search results from European websites when individuals invoke their “right to be forgotten”, contrary to regulators' guidelines, but will review that approach soon, the company's chief legal officer said on Monday. The issue of how far the so-called right to be forgotten should extend has concentrated the minds of Europe's privacy regulators since the continent's top court ruled in May that individuals could have “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” information removed from search results.