Advertising trade body ISBA has labelled the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling an “empty gesture”, and has backed the House of Lords’ dismissal of the verdict.
The ruling, enforced by the ECJ in May, requires search engines to remove links deemed to be “irrelevant” information.
Google has since been receiving thousands of applications for removals, having set up a web form through which people can submit requests for references to them to be expunged. Bing and Yahoo have now followed suit and established their own web forms.
However, earlier today it emerged that Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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