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Google sheds more light on Right To Be Forgotten requests

Since May 2014, Europeans have been given the right to request that information about themselves be delisted from search engine results. The European Court of Justice established the “right to be forgotten (RTBF)” as a means for individuals to ask search engines, such as Google, to remove links to pages deemed to be private from their search results, even if that page itself remains on the internet. However, the search engine is not necessarily obliged to satisfy that request, and so we get a typically grey area of internet regulation and policy enforcement.

In an attempt to bring greater clarity to this, Google is updating its Transparency Report to include more information on how it handles RTBF requests, and who is making them.

Forming part of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the RTBF applies to any data controller and in the context of search engines it gives European users the right to request that certain results for queries on the basis of a person’s name be delisted.      read rest of article.....


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