Belgium’s Data Protection Authority (APD) fined Google Belgium €600,000 (U.S. $670,000) for refusing to delete search results linked to a Belgian public official, a provision of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) known as the “right to be forgotten.”

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