On Tuesday, the EU’s top court ruled that Google isn’t required to apply the bloc’s “right to be forgotten” rules on a worldwide level. These rules require that an individual be able to ask a company to remove personal information from the internet, or in Google’s case, their search engine. In 2015, France’s privacy regulator CNIL demanded that the removal of information apply to Google’s global database, to prevent even those outside the EU from obtaining information on EU citizens. Google faced fines up to $100,000 for failing to comply…
An agreement was reached on Friday in a case of age discrimination between Google and numerous job seekers, settling out of court for $11 million. The suit was initially brought by a woman, Cheryl Fillekes, who is over 40 years old and who had been interviewed four times over seven years, and claimed that she had never been hired despite her qualifictions due to her age. Two hundred and twenty-seven job candidates later joined her class-action suit. Google denies having discriminated against these candidates, stating that their aptitude for the…