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Google will have to change how it applies the right to be forgotten to its websites beyond the European Union under rules drafted by the E.U.’s privacy chiefs.

The guidelines also rebuke the owner of the world’s most-used search engine for routinely notifying news outlets about story links it has removed — a process that has thrown some people who’d sought extra privacy back into the media spotlight.

“All the extensions are included, including the .com,” Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of the EU group of 28 privacy watchdogs, told reporters in Brussels today. “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.”

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