Google is appealing against an order from the Court of Justice of the European Union that aims expand Europe's “right to be forgotten” to Web sites world-wide 

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has sent a request to France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Liberté s, or CNIL, “asking it to rescind a May order "disclosed publicly in June that would force Google to apply Europe's right to be forgotten to "all domain names" of the search engine, including google.com, not just Google sites aimed at Europe, like google.co.uk.”

In its original ruling, the court recognised the right to delisting.

“The exercise of this right results from the application of European data protection law to search engines, including Google. In practical terms, any individual who wants to see removed one or more results displayed following a search made on the basis of his/her name can make a request to a search engine. The search engine then reviews the request and grants it if the legal conditions are met.

“Following the assessment of the complaints, the CNIL has requested Google to carry out the delisting of several results. It was expressly requested that the delisting should be effective on whole search engine, irrespective of the extension used (.fr; .uk; .com …).

“Although the company has granted some of the requests, delisting was only carried out on European extensions of the search engine and not when searches are made from “google.com” or other non-European extensions. “

The WSJ reports that Google has so far removed more than 1 million links under the ruling but has insisted on only doing so for its EU websites.

"We believe that no one country should have the authority to control what content someone in a second country can access," Peter Fleischer, said in a statement. "We respectfully disagree with the CNIL's assertion of global authority on this issue."

If Google doesn't comply, the CNIL can open sanctions proceedings that could lead to a fine of up to €150,000.