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Google can limit 'right to be forgotten' to EU sites, says legal opinion for bloc's top court

( January 10, 2019, 09:10 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google is right not to remove the names of individuals who don't want to appear in search results across all of its domain names, including google.com, but to limit delisting to its EU sites, according to a legal opinion prepared for the EU Court of Justice. "The provisions of EU law … do not expressly govern the issue of the territorial scope of de-referencing," Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said in a nonbinding opinion in a case pitting Google against France's data-protection authority, which wants the US search engine to apply the EU's "right to be forgotten" globally. Szpunar also said Google should use geo-blocking in respect of an IP address deemed to be located in one EU state, "​irrespective of the domain name used by the Internet user who performs the search," to achieve effective delisting within the EU.Statement follows. The opinion is attached....

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