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Google spells out how to be 'forgotten' in search

  • 31 May 2014
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Google spells out how to be 'forgotten' in search
By Alanna Petroff @AlannaPetroff May 30, 2014: 11:05 AM ET

Google is legally required to delete search results in Europe that are deemed inappropriate or irrelevant.

LONDON (CNNMoney)
Google has launched a new online form that allows people in Europe to request that links about them be removed from search results if the content is outdated, inappropriate or irrelevant.

The new form has been made available to people in 28 European Union countries and four neighboring nations after the European Union's top court ruled that people have the "right to be forgotten."

The ruling means that search engines like Google (GOOGL) must remove certain unwanted links from search results if requested. Full Article »
 
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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Interesting. It sounds like there will be jobs available shortly at Google as they attempt to come to terms with an increase in requests for data removal.
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Google should anticipate what kinds of information people will want removed, says top E.U. data protection official

By Jennifer Baker June 4, 2014
 
Google has already received around 41,000 requests to delete links to personal information from its search results in the three weeks since a key ruling by the European Court of Justice about the so-called right to be forgotten.
On May 13 the court ordered Google to remove links to a Spanish newspaper notice about a mortgage foreclosure against Costeja GonzA!lez, a 58-year-old lawyer, because it infringed his right to privacy. The paper itself was not ordered to remove the information, but GonzA!lez successfully argued that the links displayed by Google to this information about him had become inadequate and irrelevant over time.
 
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IS THAT ALL...well, that is disappointing.  Everyone must be asleep...LOL
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Have they announced when they're actually going start the removal yet?
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Too bad it's only for the Europeans. Anyways I don't find any search results on myself.;)
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By Lisa Vaas on June 9, 2014
 
 
http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/google-right-to-be-forgotten-removed-170-ss-cc.jpg?w=640Google may be forced to forget about you, but it just might stick a flag on the search results it's reluctantly expunged.
According to The Guardian, the search giant plans to put an alert at the bottom of every page where it's been compelled to remove links in the wake of the recent, landmark "right to be forgotten" court ruling.
Last month, at the command of the EU's Court of Justice, Google reluctantly put out a "forget me" form to enable European Union citizens to request that it remove links that include their name and that are deemed "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed."
 
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