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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Google releases info on 2.4 million 'right to be forgotten' requests [engadget.com]

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 [blog.google]. Europe's biggest court passed [engadget.com] 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 [gizmodo.com] 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 [google.com]

Also at The Verge [theverge.com] and Search Engine Land [searchengineland.com].

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