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Google Bombarded With Requests To Delete Info
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:26
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Britons have asked Google to remove more than 60,000 embarrassing links from its results under the “right to be forgotten”.
Google says it has received 18,304 requests from Britons asking it to remove information about their past under the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ legislation.
The submissions came from more than 6,000 people who asked the search engine to erase links to more than 60,000 websites.
Altogether just over 145,000 requests have been made to Google by people across Europe wanting to improve their reputations.
That is an average of 1,000 a day since last May when the process began.
The controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ law covers the 28 countries in the EU, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/10/google-bombarded-with-requests-to-delete-info/
