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Google inundated by 12,000 take down requests in one day through right to be forgotten page

on Jun 2, 2014 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Google has been inundated by 12,000 separate requests from individuals seeking to have web links to their past removed from the popular search engines results on the first day of enforcement of the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’.

The internet giant has been instructed by an EU court to hide information on individuals when asked to do so by the persons concerned, resulting in an influx of such requests as the new rules come into force.

To cope with demand Google has published a form for people to fill in, indicating the specific information they wish to be suppressed Read full story ›

Source: The Drum