Google Finally Expands Europe’s Search Delisting To Google.com Domain
- 9 years ago
It's taken well over a year for Google to shift its position but the search giant is finally buckling to European data protection regulators' demands to apply granted search delisting requests on the Google.com domain, as well as European subdomains as it currently does.
Search delisting refers to the so-called right to be forgotten ruling made by Europe's top court back in May 2014 which judged that search engines are data controllers and therefore must process individual requests from Europeans to delist outdated or irrelevant personal data, in line with regional data protection law.
In the event, Google is still not publicly doing so yet — but TechCrunch understands the company will be amending its implementation of the ruling to include Google.com, with this change due to be applied shortly.
Search delisting refers to the so-called right to be forgotten ruling made by Europe's top court back in May 2014 which judged that search engines are data controllers and therefore must process individual requests from Europeans to delist outdated or irrelevant personal data, in line with regional data protection law.
In the event, Google is still not publicly doing so yet — but TechCrunch understands the company will be amending its implementation of the ruling to include Google.com, with this change due to be applied shortly.