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The French data protection authority said it has fined Google (GOOGL.O) 100,000 euros ($111,720) for not scrubbing web search results widely enough in response to a European privacy ruling.The
only way for Google to uphold the Europeans' right to privacy was by
delisting inaccurate results popping up under name searches across all
its websites, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes
(CNIL) said in a statement on Thursday.
In May 2014 the European Court of Justice ruled that people could ask search engines, such as Google and Microsoft's Bing (MSFT.O), to remove inadequate or irrelevant information from web results appearing under searches for people's names - dubbed the "right to be forgotten".
The U.S. Internet giant has been at odds with European Union data protection authorities over the territorial scope of the ruling.
Google complied, but it only scrubbed results across its European websites such as Google.de in Germany and Google.fr in France on the grounds that to do otherwise would have a chilling effect on the free flow of information.
In May last year the CNIL ordered Google to expand its application of the ruling to all its domains, including Google.com, because of the ease of switching from a European domain to Google.com.
"Contrary to Google's statements, applying delisting to all of the extensions does not curtail freedom of expression insofar as it does not entail any deletion of content from the Internet," the CNIL said.
A spokesman for Google, now a unit of holding company Alphabet Inc, said the company had worked hard to implement the "right to be forgotten ruling thoughtfully and comprehensively in Europe."
"But as a matter of principle, we disagree with the CNIL’s assertion that it has the authority to control the content that people can access outside France, and we plan to appeal their ruling," Al Verney, Google's spokesman, said.
The company did try to assuage the regulator's concerns in February by delisting search results across all its websites - including Google.com - when accessed from the country where the request came from.
That meant that if a German resident asks Google to de-list a link popping up under searches for his or her name, the link will not be visible on any version of Google's website, including Google.com, when the search engine is accessed from Germany.
But the CNIL rejected that approach, saying that a person's right to privacy could not depend on the "geographic origin of those viewing the search results."
"Only delisting on all of the search engine's extensions, regardless of the extension used or the geographic origin of the person performing the search, can effectively uphold this right," it said.
($1 = 0.8951 euros)
(Reporting by Julia Fioretti; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Elaine Hardcastle)
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未落實被遺忘權 法國罰谷歌10萬歐元
2016/03/25 20:35 法新社
（法新社巴黎25日電） 法國資料監管機構以谷歌僅部分執行搜尋結果移除要求，對谷歌（Google）罰款10萬歐元（約新台幣364萬元）。
歐洲法院2014年認可「被遺忘權」，允許個人使用者在某些條件下，可以向Google等搜尋引擎業者提出搜尋結果移除要求。
谷歌雖已在歐洲的「google.fr」、「google.de」等執行「被遺忘權」，但全球性的「google.com」卻未執行。
法國資訊與自由全國委員會（CNIL）表示，移除搜尋結果的要求，應適用於谷歌全部範疇，無論相關搜尋是在何處被執行。
CNIL指出：「與谷歌主張相反，在所有範疇執行移除不會衝擊表達自由，這不涉及移除任何網路內容。」
谷歌本月稍早表示，他們會關閉一個漏洞，這個漏洞讓歐洲使用者可以透過「google.com」而非當地國搜尋頁面，找到被刪除的項目。
谷歌說：「從下週開始，除了我們現有作法外，當存取來自要求移除的使用者國家時，我們將用地理位置信號（類似IP位址），來限制存取谷歌全部搜尋領域中已被移除的資料，包括google.com」。
In May 2014 the European Court of Justice ruled that people could ask search engines, such as Google and Microsoft's Bing (MSFT.O), to remove inadequate or irrelevant information from web results appearing under searches for people's names - dubbed the "right to be forgotten".
The U.S. Internet giant has been at odds with European Union data protection authorities over the territorial scope of the ruling.
Google complied, but it only scrubbed results across its European websites such as Google.de in Germany and Google.fr in France on the grounds that to do otherwise would have a chilling effect on the free flow of information.
In May last year the CNIL ordered Google to expand its application of the ruling to all its domains, including Google.com, because of the ease of switching from a European domain to Google.com.
"Contrary to Google's statements, applying delisting to all of the extensions does not curtail freedom of expression insofar as it does not entail any deletion of content from the Internet," the CNIL said.
A spokesman for Google, now a unit of holding company Alphabet Inc, said the company had worked hard to implement the "right to be forgotten ruling thoughtfully and comprehensively in Europe."
"But as a matter of principle, we disagree with the CNIL’s assertion that it has the authority to control the content that people can access outside France, and we plan to appeal their ruling," Al Verney, Google's spokesman, said.
The company did try to assuage the regulator's concerns in February by delisting search results across all its websites - including Google.com - when accessed from the country where the request came from.
That meant that if a German resident asks Google to de-list a link popping up under searches for his or her name, the link will not be visible on any version of Google's website, including Google.com, when the search engine is accessed from Germany.
But the CNIL rejected that approach, saying that a person's right to privacy could not depend on the "geographic origin of those viewing the search results."
"Only delisting on all of the search engine's extensions, regardless of the extension used or the geographic origin of the person performing the search, can effectively uphold this right," it said.
($1 = 0.8951 euros)
(Reporting by Julia Fioretti; Editing by Alastair Macdonald and Elaine Hardcastle)
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未落實被遺忘權 法國罰谷歌10萬歐元
2016/03/25 20:35 法新社
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歐洲法院2014年認可「被遺忘權」，允許個人使用者在某些條件下，可以向Google等搜尋引擎業者提出搜尋結果移除要求。
谷歌雖已在歐洲的「google.fr」、「google.de」等執行「被遺忘權」，但全球性的「google.com」卻未執行。
法國資訊與自由全國委員會（CNIL）表示，移除搜尋結果的要求，應適用於谷歌全部範疇，無論相關搜尋是在何處被執行。
CNIL指出：「與谷歌主張相反，在所有範疇執行移除不會衝擊表達自由，這不涉及移除任何網路內容。」
谷歌本月稍早表示，他們會關閉一個漏洞，這個漏洞讓歐洲使用者可以透過「google.com」而非當地國搜尋頁面，找到被刪除的項目。
谷歌說：「從下週開始，除了我們現有作法外，當存取來自要求移除的使用者國家時，我們將用地理位置信號（類似IP位址），來限制存取谷歌全部搜尋領域中已被移除的資料，包括google.com」。