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The Drum is challenging a ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling after an eight-year-old news story was suppressed from Google’s search results.

Earlier this week The Drum was served with a notice from Google that a news article from 2008, about Alistair Sim leaving his role as managing director of Love Creative following an assault conviction, would no longer appear in certain search results.

The notice explained that the page could no longer be shown because of a request under data protection law in Europe, but did not disclose which queries had been affected.

The Drum’s editor Stephen Lepitak said: “This was in Read full story ›

Source: The Drum