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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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @11:44AM (1 child)
More like "Crimes to be forgotten" because the submitter is a jewish low-life who swindled humans and now wants to start fresh and swindle some more. Strangely, try finding some holohoax stories and you will be inundated with lies and propaganda. You will not find real true information on google/jewgle.
Google is NOT your friend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:21PM
Well, I'm not sure we have to go down that rabbit hole to see that DuckDuckGo, StartPage, etc are the best we can do.
Makes me wonder what the next Google will look like. Maybe "AI" will be involved. Though I'd love to see something like a distributed web index/digest that could then be interpreted by free software running locally (that I and nobody else control).