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Google scores a big victory in Europe

The European Court of Justice ruled this morning that a sweeping privacy law that lets people control what information about them is available on the internet cannot be applied outside the E.U. It’s a win for Google and for other global internet companies, Adam Satariano of the NYT writes.

The decision limits the scope of the so-called right to be forgotten, which can be used to force search engines to delete links to websites, news articles and databases that include personal information considered old, no longer relevant or not in the public interest.

The court’s decision most likely heads off international disputes over the breadth of European laws outside the 28-nation bloc. The Trump administration and Silicon Valley tech giants have complained that the E.U. has often appeared to be trying to set global tech policies.

Google praised the decision. “Since 2014, we’ve worked hard to implement the right to be forgotten in Europe, and to strike a sensible balance between people’s rights of access to information and privacy,” Peter Fleischer, Google’s senior privacy counsel, said in a statement. “It’s good to see that the Court agreed with our arguments.”