That’s right. The company that has spent years fighting now in Europe’s highest courts against "the right to be forgotten" law (which compels search engines like Google to remove search listings about people if they get the appropriate court orders) has simultaneously been asserting its own privilege to be forgotten on some matters here in the U.S.
Let’s go over this slowly: Google wants us never to know about some of its history in case the DOL unearths some dirt? Isn’t that the very nature of Googling?