France rejects Google appeal on search clean-up

Data privacy regulators in France took a step towards sanctioning Google by rejecting the company’s request to drop a case against it for refusing to clean up information from its search engine results.

Under Europe’s right to be forgotten rule, people can ask search engines to remove details that appear under a search of their name if it is incorrect, out of date, irrelevant or inflammatory.

But Google only de-lists links on European versions of its sites, meaning the information remains available.