Google Says 443,000 URLs Removed Since Starting Europe's Right To Be Forgotten Process
Google has removed almost 443,000 URLs, or about 42 percent of those evaluated since it began complying with Europe's right to be forgotten process May 29, 2014, the company said Friday in an updated transparency report. Google said it received…
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more than 349,000 requests in that time, providing statistics for each of the 32 European countries. The company also listed nearly two dozen examples of requests from individuals who want search results about them deleted (see 1505150001). For example, it granted a request from a Belgian, whose criminal conviction was "quashed" on appeal, to remove an article about the incident. The company said it removed the page from search results for the person's name. However, Google denied a request from a priest in France who was convicted of possessing "child sexual abuse imagery" to remove articles about his sentencing and banishment from the church.