Google removes 40% of requests for right to be forgotten in a year – Financial Journal

EFE

Of the 780,000 requests for removal of Internet addresses tested for a year by Google, 58.7% of them have remained in engines Search.

European Justice ruled in favor of the “right to forget” on May 13, 2014, and from the 29th of that same month, Google provides the who wants a withdrawal request form Link, whose evaluation is considered case by case, to see if it welcomes this legal course, which requires very specific requirements.

Of the 780,000 requests for removal of Internet addresses assessed during this time Google, 58.7% of them were finally held in the search engines because the technology has been considered that the claims were not welcomed assumptions included in the sentence, while the remaining 41% itself has been deleted.

The ruling affects European countries and Spain is fourth in the list of states with more requests erase URL operated by Google during this time, with 65 544 applications, of which technology has . retired 36.5%, while the rest has remained

are before France, Germany and the United Kingdom; in the case of the former, of the approximately 145,000 Internet addresses claimed processed after deletion of search engine Google, 52% has been rejected for disposal and the other has had the approval of the technology to be withdrawn .

In Germany, Google has accepted 49% of the 142,500 claims processed and 51% has been rejected, and the UK has been deleted only 37.6% of the approximately 105,000 requests deleting links managed.

The fifth country in the list after Spain is Italy, with 27.6% of URL finally processed for evaluation deleted a total of almost 55,000 managed.

Among the withdrawn applications are all kinds of cases, such as that of a political activist who was stabbed in a protest and asked Google removal of link to an article about the event or a teacher convicted of a misdemeanor over ten years

ago. Among the non-deleted are those of a exclérigo who requested the withdrawal of two links to articles on the investigation of allegations of sexual abuse or of a senior official who requested Recent articles withdraw a criminal conviction of two decades

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