It’s coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator’s protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy.
Tag Archives: France
Google wins landmark case: Right to be forgotten only applies in EU
Yes, people have the right to be forgotten, but only if they’re European, the top EU court ruled on Tuesday.
Facebook Libra rejected by France as “dangerous”
France finance minister: Libra won’t be allowed onto European soil.
Cop charged with selling phone tracking service on dark web
A French police officer has been charged with using police intelligence data to power a mobile phone tracking service sold via the dark web.
Despacito YouTube video hack – teenagers charged
Web defacement is supposed to be an old-fashioned type of hack, but it probably didn’t look that way to YouTube viewers on 10 April.
Google defies French global ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
Google is set to defy a French data authority ruling on the global removal of right to be forgotten links.
France orders Google to scrub search globally in right to be forgotten requests
We do not care if a URL’s got a .fr, a .uk or a .com glued to the end, France told Google – if a European makes a legitimate request to be forgotten in search results, make it so on all your search engines in all countries. 
Cyberjihadists attack thousands of French websites after Charlie Hebdo massacre
Some 19,000 French websites have come under attack in the days since the bloody assault on the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish grocery store last week.
Google fined for not taking down “right to be forgotten” links worldwide
The “right to be forgotten” case is the first in Europe to take the power to compel link takedown outside a country’s border and into the search results Google delivers worldwide. 
France World Cup team training session snooped on by a “spy drone”
France is shaking its fist at what it thinks may have been a spy drone buzzing its football team as it practiced for Sunday’s opening game. FIFA is investigating. 