Google Inc.’s share price down, said to be pushed by the EU to extend the “right to be forgotten” to its .com domains

Google Inc. will probably be pushed to change the way it applies the “right to be forgotten” to its websites after the European Union and its privacy regulators demand the right to be forgotten to go global.

A few months ago, the U.S.-based company was imposed a decision by the regulatory authorities to provide its users with the opportunity to demand deletion of sensitive information. Data protection regulators reached an agreement over the guidelines towards Google, which will have to apply privacy requests from residents of the European Union to its primary website on its domestic market.

The head of the European Union group of 28 privacy regulators, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, said in an interview with reporters, cited by Bloomberg: “All the extensions are included, including the .com. There is no legal basis for routine transmissions from Google, or any other search engines, to editors,” she said. “It may, in some cases be necessary, but not as a routine and not as an obligation, as Google said.”

The representatives of the group agreed that not only Google, but also the other search engines should limit the notifications that their websites have become subjects to such information removals. There was a disagreement between regulators and Google, which arose from considerations related to the implementation of a ruling the Europes top court made in May this year.

The largest search engine in the world quickly moved to apply the courts decision in the summer, but it applied the sensitive information removals only to its domains in Europe, but not its Google.com, even when accessed in Europe.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, one of Googles spokesmen said in a statement: “We haven’t yet seen the Article 29 Working Party’s guidelines, but we will study them carefully when they’re published.”

Google Inc. was down 0.13% to close at $540.37 per share yesterday, marking a one-year increase of 3.40%. The company is valued at $369.81 billion. According to CNN Money, the 42 analysts offering 12-month price forecasts for Google Inc. have a median target of $640.00, with a high estimate of $750.00 and a low estimate of $530.00. The median estimate represents a +18.44% increase from the last price of $540.37.