Google's ‘Right To Be Forgotten' Is Far From Forgotten

CNIL, France's data regulator, has officially stated that Google may find itself facing sanctions if it fails to comply with last year's ruling of the European Court of Justice within the stipulated 15-day time frame.

Last year, a ruling by the Court of Justice allowed people to file a request to Google to remove certain information about them that could be searched and come up in search engine results. This data deletion is only applicable to European sites and only information from searches done using European sites is deleted.

An application for removal could be submitted to Google related to any data deemed outdated, irrelevant or harmful. Since 2014, when the ruling entered into effect, Google is believed to have processed over a million of these applications and refused those which it considered to have no merit.