The European Court of Justice told Google that it had to remove information under its so-called “right to be forgotten” law and now it has emerged that one in 10 requests came from the UK.
According to the BBC, Google has taken down nearly 500,000 links from its search engine since May. And, of those, 63,616 were UK requests.
Google doesn’t have to take down sites on requests, but people have a right to appeal if it decides not to.
Out of the 498,737 URLs it looked at, based on 146,357 requests, France accounted for the most requests, followed by Germany and then the UK. Of the requests it received, Google removed 41.8 percent, and left 58.2 percent of them online.
Google said it gt a request from a defrocked vicar to remove two links covering an investigation of sexual abuse accusations. It didn’t remove the pages.
Facebook accounted for most requests to remove references, followed by profileengine.com
