Google Sued in Europe-Privacy Test Case

Google was hauled into a French court by former Formula One racing head Max Mosley, who wants the Internet giant to scrub its search results of grainy images of a sexual escapade.

The images were found to be a privacy breach by a UK court, only to pop up elsewhere online. The case is the latest in a series brought by Mosley and others that test the limits of what individuals can do to control information that appears about them on the Internet. As Europe considers tougher new privacy rules that could contain a "right to be forgotten," the cases could help determine the balance between privacy and censorship in an era of pervasive social-media and government surveillance.