  Regarding (ii), many privacy advocates argue that while RtE applies in all EU countries, it cannot be an effective law without strong international support; so, many members of the EC, as well as the privacy regulators in the 28 EU nations (including the UK which will soon exit the EU but will likely continue to support the principles comprising RtE), have argued that RtE should apply beyond Europe. Even though SECs operating in Europe are required to comply with GDPR (and its RtE provisions) in all EU countries, RtE can be very easily circumvented both within and outside Europe. For example, a European user who enters the keyword “Mario González” on Google.com (or on non-local (European) versions of Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, etc.) will still find the link to the story about that person’s home foreclosure prominently listed, even though users of Google.es (in Spain), or Google users in other EU countries such as Germany (Google.de), will not see that link in their list of search returns. So RtE supporters have petitioned for broader application of the new law, while Google and other SECs have challenged that view in court. In September 2019, the EU’s highest court ruled that Google did not have to apply RtE globally (Kelion 2019). So, many privacy advocates in Europe and elsewhere believe that a universal or global version of RtE is still needed for it to be an effective law (see, for example, Global Partners Digital 2018).