Google removal of BBC web pages under the so-called “right to be forgotten” is being challenged by the broadcasting giant.
The BBC feels that some of its own pages shuld not have been taken down. David Jordan, who heads up the BBC’s editorial policy said it would publish a regularly updated list of pages that Google has removed.
The European Court of Justice told Google that people should have the right to have content they objected to removed. Google, said Jordan, doesn’t let people or organisations that run pages know links have been taken down.
Jordan said that the BBC wouldn’t publish any identifying information or republish pages. He said there isn’t an effective appeal process and said one page about members of the Real IRA was removed from the BBC website even after two people were convicted.
Jordan made the remarks at a meeting organised by Google. The search engine is currently engaged in a PR campaign around Europe in a bid to help people understand Google really isn’t evil.
