Google’s French arm has been told it will have to pay a 1,000 euro fine every day should the parent company in America – Google Inc - fail to remove a defamatory article from its global network. The order, by a court in Paris, is an enforcement of the controversial so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling. The case was brought against Google by Dan Shefet, a Danish lawyer employed in France, last August following a malicious campaign against his firm by various blogs and sites that was overseen by someone who couldn’t be traced. Google’s French arm has been told it will have to pay a 1,000 euro fine every day should the parent company in America – Google Inc - fail to remove a defamatory article from its global network
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The order by a Paris court enforces the 'right to be forgotten' rule
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The case was brought by a law firm in France that was defamed online
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The court ordered links to a defamatory article about the firm to be deleted
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Google's French division complied, but the parent company did not
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It meant that the article was invisible in France, but visible elsewhere
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Now the French arm will be punished if the parent company fails to comply
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Mr Shefet added: ‘Now a daily penalty can be inflicted upon Google UK by local courts until @placeholder delivers the result by way of [removing links] world wide.’