PARIS—France’s data-protection regulator ordered Google to expand Europe’s new right to be forgotten to the search engine’s websites world-wide, escalating a fight over the territorial scope of the divisive new rule amid a broader battle between U.S. tech firms and European authorities.
France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, or CNIL, said Friday that it issued a formal order to Google to begin applying right to be forgotten removals it is processing to “all domain names†of the search engine…
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