On September 11, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") conducted a hearing to obtain evidence for a case brought by the French Data Protection Authority ("CNIL") in August 2017 against a U.S. technology company involving the right to be forgotten (source document in French). The CJEU obtained evidence from the technology company, the CNIL, a number of EU countries representatives, and other privacy advocates. The CJEU will have to decide whether the right to be forgotten should apply to all of the domain names used by a search engine worldwide, regardless of the place from where the search was initiated, or whether this right should apply only to searches initiated on domain names associated with the EU Member States where the search was initiated. The CJEU's decision is expected sometime next year.
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