Google has revealed that it has received 349,351 URL removal requests following the launch of its official request process in May last year.
In 2014 the Court of Justice of the European Union found that individuals have the right to ask search engines like Google to remove certain results about them, with search engines only able to continue to display certain results where there is a public interest in doing so.
In total the search giant has evaluated 1.2m requests so far with 42.1 per cent of those URLs “fully processed”.
Facebook was the most common site affected (10,257 posts were Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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