Google’s new EU-mandated link removal form attracts over 12,000 requests in the first day
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Google received more than 12,000 requests from individuals looking to remove search results from the European versions of its search engine hours after publishing a court-mandated online form_on Friday, Reuters reports. The form complies with European Data Protection Law’s “right to be forgotten” by providing a way for people to have outdated and irrelevant online information pulled. Earlier this month, Google lost a lawsuit brought by a man seeking to have links to decade-old debt proceedings removed from the search engine. A Google spokesperson told Reuters that the ruling requires the company to make “difficult judgements” with the information. Google’s...
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