Right to be forgotten: How far can Europe impose on sites that operate outside it?

Dan Shefet doesn’t want you to Google his name.
A Danish lawyer who has lived in Paris for 30 years, Shefet has been accused online of professional malpractice, fraud and even having connections to the Serbian mafia – accusations he strongly denies.
“It’s been nightmarish. It’s affected my entire family,” Shefet, 60, said at his somewhat cluttered office in central Paris. “As a lawyer, I live and die by my reputation.” So in 2013, Shefet asked Google to take down links to the defamatory material.
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