Google has set up an advisory council to decide if the search engine should make takedown requests global on Google.com and the native domain.

Currently, when a user asks to be forgotten, Google removes data from the specific European domain, i.e. Google.fr for France. The European Union claims this should be applied to the major international domain, Google.com, too.

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The council included two Google executives, Chairman Eric Schmidt and chief legal officer David Drummond, alongside Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Oxford University professor of philosophy Luciano Floridi and former director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, José-Luis Piñar.

Most found Google's current efforts at removing content from the specific domain enough. However, Jimmy Wales and former German federal justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger sided with the European Union's new request, saying the removal should be universal and not regional.

"The Council supports effective measures to protect the rights of data subjects," the group said in its report. "Given concerns of proportionality and practical effectiveness, it concludes that removal from nationally directed versions of Google's search services within the EU is the appropriate means to implement the Ruling at this stage."

Considering most of the approved requests are slander or commercial interests, these should be broad data removal requests, applied across Google.com and the regional Google domain.

It is not clear why Google is putting up resistance to this idea, especially since working with the European Union might bring them better favor when it comes to new overseas taxes and search engine anti-competitiveness.

TagsRight to Be Forgotten, Google.com, European Union