Google admitted that since the ruling it had purged a significant number of links after receiving a deluge of requests from people wishing to have ‘inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive’ information erased from the webosphere.
Google has deleted over 260,000 web links since the EU-wide legislation which ruled in favour of an individuals’ right to anonymity.
Google admitted that since the ruling it had purged a significant number of links after receiving a deluge of requests from people wishing to have ‘inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive’ information erased from the webosphere.
So far Google has received 216,000 requests to delete 780,000 links from its search results, a move that culture secretary Sajid Javid said was protecting terrorists and criminals.
Requests from the UK now measure more than 27,000 – to remove 107,000 pages of info.
The ‘right to be forgotten’ however doesn’t mean forgotten everywhere, as US campaigners fought that a similar policy there would breach their constitution. Requests will only apply to European domains such as google.co.uk – not google.com, for example.
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