European Privacy Watchdogs to Urge Google for Implementing “Right to be Forgotten” Globally

Since the EU wants search engines’ results 'forgotten' globally, the European Commission continues to push to extend ‘forgotten’ requests to U.S. site. The EU Commission wants to expand its "right to be forgotten" policy to all search engines worldwide.
The EU’s main group of privacy regulators gave Google a package of guidelines to help implement a global ruling like the one already in place in Europe. The European Commission’s privacy watchdogs have initiated a new phase of an old battle, on a new front in privacy policies arena.

On Thursday, the EU handed to the internet giant a package of guidelines to help it bring the way it collects and stores user data in line with European laws. Before this development six regulators had opened investigations against Google. European privacy regulators claim that, Google should start to apply European Union’s “right to be forgotten” rights to all of its global domains. This means that, Google should expand 'right to be forgotten' censorship to global search.
Privacy regulators agreed on a set of guidelines to be valid worldwide. According to new guidelines Google will have to change how it applies the right to be forgotten to its websites beyond the EU. And this will be under rules drafted by the European Union’s privacy experts.

“All the extensions are included, including the .com,” Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of the EU group of 28 privacy watchdogs, told reporters in Brussels yesterday. “There is no legal basis for routine transmissions from Google, or any other search engines, to editors,” said Falque-Pierrotin, who also leads France’s privacy watchdog.
“It’s not our intention to give good marks or bad marks” to one search engine over another”, she added. “Google, like other search engines, have been surprised by the ruling, because of the new obligations they have to respect now.”

According to France’s leading privacy watchdog, while the guidelines aren’t legally binding, national regulators can use them to exert pressure on Google and take legal steps to make it comply.