That said, Google is still resisting expanding search delisting to the Google.com domain, as European data protection regulators would like it to — currently only applying delisting decisions to European sub-domains.
Regulated data items that are protected by data protection regulations.
Data protection legislation is not about protecting data; its about protecting people.
The data watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office also warned against using the data protection act "as a barrier to keep information out of the public domain where there is an overriding public interest in disclosure".
The Article 29 cross-European panel of data protection watchdogs announced its guidance that search result removals should be carried out beyond local European domains such as google.co.uk, google.fr and google.de to prevent circumvention of the right to be forgotten law.
Google is subject to the "right to be forgotten" ruling, which is currently seeing the pan-European data protection watchdogs call for search results to be deleted from google.com, as well as local EU domains.
Google has continued resisting calls by European data protection regulators to delist right-to-be-forgotten content globally, limiting link removal for these requests to European sub-domains.
In September 2015, the French data protection authority threatened to fine Google if it did not scrub search results globally across all versions of its website, not just European domains.
Data protection has also become an issue.
Data protection is coming of age.
"This is serious breach of data protection.
