Google and French regulators are fighting another round over people’s right to privacy.

The search giant said on Thursday that it had filed an appeal to overturn a small but symbolic fine from France’s privacy watchdog, which ruled in March that Google had failed to comply with the country’s tough data protection laws.

The French regulator fined Google 100,000 euros, or about $112,000, after the company refused to take down links worldwide to online information when people in France had made a legitimate demand to have them removed on privacy grounds.

The penalty is a paltry sum compared with Google’s $75 billion in annual revenue. But the company’s appeal indicates that Google wants to draw firm boundaries around Internet regulations worldwide.

“This is a debate about the principles of international law that regulate the Internet globally,” David Price, a senior product counsel at Google, said in an interview on Thursday. “One nation can’t make the laws for another country.”