Mexico Debates Google Sanction Over Data Breach Wochit
go to original January 29, 2015

Mexican officials are debating possible sanctions against Google over a possible breach of the country's data protection laws.

As reported by Reuters, Mexico's Federal Institute for Information Access and Data Protection (IFAI) said this week proceedings have begun against the tech giant in relation to a data protection complaint.

According to the transparency institute, an unnamed individual has levied a complaint against Google Mexico after the firm allegedly ignored the person's requests to have personal data erased from search engine results. The IFAI said the complaint was taken up in September 2014, and in December, the agency attempted to force Google Mexico to comply and remove offending links.

However, the attempt failed after Google Mexico argued the request was related to parent company Google's search engine, and was therefore not in the domain of the firm's Mexican unit.
The IFAI has rejected such a claim.

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