Regulators slam Google’s handling of “right to be forgotten” requests
25 Jul 2014
Regulators have slammed Google's handling of "right to be forgotten" requests from European citizens following the search engine company restricting the removal of internet links to European sites only, Reuters reported quoting a person familiar with the matter.
According to the source who was present at the meeting, Google was quizzed by regulators over its decision to remove search results only from its European search engines such as google.co.uk, which meant that anyone could easily access the same information by switching to the widely used google.com.
The top EU court ruled in May that people had a right to request that years-old personal information that was no longer relevant be removed from internet search results.
The search engine company had approved over half of roughly 90,000 incoming requests, called for additional information in about 15 per cent of cases, rejecting around 30 per cent of them, according to a source close to the company.
European data protection authorities yesterday met executives from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, operator of the Bing search engine, to discuss the implementation of the landmark ruling.
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