Google will pay the French authorities a $ 112,000 fine for violating the “right to oblivion”

Google violated the "right to oblivion" of French citizens. As a result, the authorities appointed a corporation a fine of $ 112,000 to the corporation because the corporation did not completely delete the data about people in its search engines. Their “applications for oblivion” were approved by the National Commission for Information and Freedom.

Following the instructions of European courts, the company made the data about these people invisible when searching from the countries where they live.

“The data must be removed from Google’s search engine regardless of which domain (.fr, .com, and so on) is searched,” the agency said in a statement.
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After processing the submitted applications, the commission asked Google to delist some data. The ministry added that, in their opinion, the complete delisting of search engines does not violate the freedom of speech and does not harm the development of the Internet.

“We fundamentally disagree with the statement that this agency has the authority to control content available to users outside France,” said Google spokesman Al Verni.

In the European Union, the “right to oblivion” is governed by European Commission Directive 95/46 / EC on data protection, adopted back in 1995, and will soon be governed by the new “General Data Protection Regulation”.
National legislation of EU countries must comply with the requirements of these documents.

On June 15, the Ministers of Justice of 28 EU countries completed the development of a new draft law on the protection of personal data. This project is designed to supplement and unify the relevant laws of EU countries. Its development was begun in 2012.

“The main goal is to provide citizens with more rights and opportunities to control their personal data. At the same time, new laws will help businesses take full advantage of the unified digital market, which will reduce costs, ”the European Commission notes.

Under a single law, it is proposed to provide citizens, including the "right to oblivion."

Its essence is to allow users to request removal of links to inaccurate, outdated, or “illegal" information about them. Formerly, Europeans had to collect several court decisions to exercise this right in exceptional situations.

"Megamind" wrote that on June 16 the draft law on the "right to oblivion" was adopted in the first reading by the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The largest Internet companies operating in Russia were against the bill: Yandex, Google, Rambler & Co and Mail.ru. Yandex is sure that the innovations contradict Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Article 8 of the Law "On Information".

As a result, deputies and Russian Internet companies decided to “soften” the bill, removing the outdated information item from the draft.