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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the never-forget-a-face dept.

Google releases info on 2.4 million 'right to be forgotten' requests

Google has received 2.4 million "right to be forgotten" requests since 2014, most of which came from private individuals, according to its latest transparency report. Europe's biggest court passed the right to be forgotten law in 2014, compelling the tech titan to remove personal info from its search engine upon request. In the report, Google has revealed that it complied with 43.3 percent of all the requests it's gotten and has also detailed the nature of those takedown pleas.

France, Germany and the UK apparently generated 51 percent of all the URL delisting appeals. Overall, 89 percent of the takedown pleas came from private individuals: Non-government figures such as celebrities submitted 41,213 of the URLs in Google's pile, while politicians and government officials submitted 33,937. As Gizmodo noted, though, there's a small group of law firms and reputation management services submitting numerous pleas, suggesting the rise of reputation-fixing business in the region.

Three years of the right to be forgotten

Also at The Verge and Search Engine Land.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by lentilla on Wednesday February 28 2018, @11:37AM (1 child)

    by lentilla (1770) on Wednesday February 28 2018, @11:37AM (#645093)

    I wonder how much that "forget list" would fetch on the black market? A simple list of names would be too broad a brush, so I assume it must contain specifics as to what needs to be forgotten - making it a very juicy collection indeed.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:59PM (#645278)

    One could search the list for obvious jewish names and see how many of these criminals are wiping themselves off the internet and of course the genocides they commit.

    To be sure if these are jewish criminals, the previously searchable list of pages would be searched again to find the pages that contain incriminating information the jews want forgotten.

    See, the internet has been a blessing and bane for the jews. Blessing, because they can now destroy any goy by clicking a few buttons. Bane, because the same internet can be used to expose jews and their criminal activities. Don't you think George Soros would like to remove all web pages scrutinizing him and proving him to be a criminal master manipulator and murderer?