The BBC intends to list BBC links which were taken off Google because of the EU decision on the "right to be forgotten".
Since a European Court of Justice ruling last year, individuals have the right to request that search engines remove certain web pages from their search results. Those pages usually contain personal information about individuals.
Following the ruling, Google removed a large number of links from its search results, including some to BBC web pages, and continues to delist pages from BBC Online.
The BBC has decided to make clear to licence fee payers which pages have been removed from Google's search results by publishing this list of links.
Further information can be found on this BBC story
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 29 2015, @03:30AM
Probably the only place that knows this is the news organization that had the information in the first place.
It seems like all of those agencies should follow the BBC example and publish a list of these URLs themselves, since the EU mandate apparently does not extend to news organizations. At least history won't be totally lost, when this right to be forgotten nonsense is finally rolled back.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 29 2015, @12:06PM
And then one could use ones own search bot on those index pages and ooppps! ;-)
I think it will be called dirtsearch! :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @04:28PM
> Probably the only place that knows this is the news organization that had the information in the first place.
That's only if they make the effort to check and if they make it using the right keywords. Not all "forgotten" pages are completely forgotten, some are just dis-associated from specific keywords in the index.