As long as Europe has a problem with Google, it looks like the Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF) will never just peacefully exist as it is. For the last several months, there have been public hearings and discussions surrounding the idea of the “geographic scope of delisting.” So what exactly is the issue? Advocates for […]
Right To Be Forgotten just can’t catch a break. Yesterday, more fire kindling has been thrown onto the bonfire when, according to a release, 50 links to Wikipedia have been removed from Google search results due to the Right To Be Forgotten legislation. Here is a bit form the release: As of July 18, Google […]
This Right To Be Forgotten issue in Europe seems to have a lot of steam built up behind it, because there is always something going on with it in Europe. In this particular case, we will be speaking of the House of Lords in the UK. Although most EU countries have been unanimous in their […]
A couple months after the Right To Be Forgotten issue with the EU has begun, the content removal requests have been piling up. It makes you wonder how long it’ll take to finally see if the requests will continue to rise, or will begin plateauing. Just on the first day of availability of the RTBF […]
It seems that Google has seen nothing but trouble ever since it implemented the EU’s new Right To Be Forgotten mandate back in May. Because of this, Google has decided that they will be soliciting feedback on their implementation through a new Advisory Council. Google has released a page at google.com/advisorycouncil that asks any Google user […]
It certainly seems that there is always something new to deal with when you look at the Google and EU’s Right To Be Forgotten action. Just when you think that everything has been taken care of and good things are coming of it, some unseen consequence rears its ugly head. In this case, due to the […]
At this point, Google’s Right To Be Forgotten process is well under way, and is removing results from the European version of Google in response to EU’s ruling. Now that this process is well on it’s way, many webmasters are now receiving notifications of these removals. Here is how the notice read: Notice of removal from Google […]
The process has already begun. Google has started processing and removing the approved submissions done through the right to the Right To Be Forgotten Forum. For those of you haven’t been keeping up, a European Court Of Justice ruling happened back in May 2014 called Right To Be Forgotten that allows EU citizens could request […]
It’s being reported by the Guardian that Google may add an indication in the search results that content has been removed because of of what is required by the European Union last month in the Right To Be Forgotten case. Google admitted that they will be adding a disclosure in their search results if something […]
Last week, the number of those requesting under Europe’s ruling to being forgotten had been up to 12,000. Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, those 12,000 requests have risen to 41,000, almost a 3.5 times the increase from the first week. The amount of people using Google’s provided form have decreased a bit since last week, […]