Did I understand that correctly: Google France "forgets" about things that I would like it to forget but Google Canada still knows? Shouldn't it be more about that if I'm European, I have the right to be forgotten, so all the information that I want to be removed should be removed, no matter which engine is used?
Google is an indexer, therefore it searches for information on the internet that correlates or is @tonyjstark. If you ask your government for a 'Rights to be Forgotten', they will request for everyone in their jurisdiction to remove you from it. Google EU and others then have to remove the indexed information associated with you. However, Google US, Bing Colombia, etc are not in your jurisdiction, so it can still index the information associated with you. Also, if the website that is being indexed is not within EU jurisdiction or has been copied elsewhere, then it also falls outside of EU jurisdiction.
If legislation like these ones could encompass the whole world, certain powerful countries, corporations, individuals, etc would use it to ensure that only what was beneficial to them would be indexed, searchable and available.
> If you ask your government for a 'Rights to be Forgotten', they will request for everyone in their jurisdiction to remove you from it.
That's not how this works. You ask the entity in question to remove your data.
You only ask your "government" to enforce that right if everything else fails. You're already assuming bad faith from the entity. Some requests are actually reasonable and when you talk to a human they will do it if you have a good reason.
So a French person can demand that a Canadian company must prevent Canadians from finding information about them?
Maybe it makes sense that if the Canadian company is serving content to France they have to abide by the French rules, but I don't see any kind of case for blanket removal. Neither does the EU for that matter. Take note that the ruling says basically Google had to make it hard for a French person to access the Canadian version of their engine.
No, and that's specifically what this ruling is about: a French person cannot demand that a Canadian company prevent Canadians from finding information about them.
On the other end, a French person can demand that a Canadian company prevent French people from finding information about them (some exceptions might apply though). The Canadian company can also choose not to do business with the EU, in which case it doesn't have to abide by EU rules (some sites decided to do exactly that when GDPR rolled out).
Not quite. The information is never removed in either case, just not listed in the search results. The newspaper article is still online but does not show up for Europeans, no matter which engine is used.
