Google has made an appeal to a French court, in order to get the country's 'right to be forgotten' ruling removed from its global sites. Whilst the French ruling was passed by the EU in 2014 for European citizens, it can apply even when the websites themselves are not hosted within Europe. Google has maintained that it does remove valid requests for removal, but that it does not currently remove the affected pages from its sites outside of Europe, such as Google.com; something they have been ordered to do. The search engine has argued that the ruling should not apply outside the EU or France's jurisdiction, as “one country should not have the right to impose its rules on the citizens of other countries.” In an open letter printed in French newspaper Le Monde, Google suggested that it would set a dangerous precedent for “less open and democratic” countries to start imposing their laws worldwide.Â
