Generally, where the US prioritises freedom of expression as enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution, the EU favours the right to privacy. The freedom to impart and receive information is an important component of freedom of expression. The right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) as articulated by the Court of Justice of the EU in its 2014 Google Spain judgment, whereby search engines must delist certain results upon requests from EU data subjects, and its subsequent implementation, show transatlantic divides over the right to freedom of expression vis-à-vis data privacy rights. In an attempt to combine fundamental rights concerns, permissive principles of jurisdiction, and questions of connection and reason, the research suggests a way for the EU to exercise jurisdiction regarding the right to erasure that will lessen transatlantic conflicts. Specifically, delisting should not be limited to EU country-specific websites that can easily be circumvented by going to a non-EU version of the same site, but nor should it be implemented globally, thereby subjecting the whole world to EU law. This approach can be applied in future situations where US and EU values, interests and laws on data protection and the freedom of expression collide.