Google has reacted to European Union information watchdogs by enlarging its right-to-be-forgotten rules to apply to its search sites around the world.

In 2014, Europe’s top court ordered search engines to scrub specific listings on their indexes.

Really, the right-to-be-forgotten may look evocative to privacy campaigners, but as the united kingdom ‘s Information Commissioner’s Office has previously said, “there’s no total right [below the opinion] to have information removed.”

Google determined to play the long game by simply consenting to jettison some links from its EU-based search websites, promptly following the ruling. So it implemented those rules to Google.co.uk, and Google.de, by way of example, but not to Google.com.

Google–which intentionally structures its international business to stay mostly beyond national laws–intends to implement the changes retrospectively to any links that it’s delisted from search.

Under the 22-month old opinion, any requests it receives to remove links from its search results can be snubbed by Google. It is then up to someone to take their grievance to the applicable national data protection regulator within the EU. And any following choice made at that degree could be fought over in the courts.