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Earlier this month a European court created a new “right to be forgotten” for citizens living in the European Union covered by the court’s jurisdiction. This new right means users can request search engines suppress information that may be returned by a search query. After the ruling was issued, Google started to receive a flood of requests for application of the new right. Google indicated at the time that they would create an online mechanism for users to submit these requests. That process has debuted via a help request form accessed on Google support pages.
According to Google, this is just an initial effort that they expect to be refined over time. At this point, it is still a manual process of reviewing each request on a case-by-case basis. It may always stay that way given the requirements a user has to meet in order to get information suppressed. The results have to show up in response to a query on the user’s name and not some other search. The information the user objects to has to be inaccurate or outdated, not just negative. Users will also have to submit a photo ID to prevent fraudulent requests.
Thus far it appears Google is the only search engine to implement any kind of standard, user-facing process for requests to suppress information even though the ruling applies to all search engines.
source: Google
via: 9to5Google
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