Five months after Europe gave its citizens a right to be forgotten on the Internet, Google has had to do a lot of forgetting.
Since May 29, when Google set up the deletion process, the search engine has received requests to remove almost 500,000 links, according to data published by Google on Thursday in its first transparency report on the controversial "right to be forgotten."
See also: Do Search Engines Have Free-Speech Rights?
So far, Google has removed 170,706 URLs (41.8 percent), while keeping another 237,736 links (58.2%).
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France leads all European countries with 28,912 requests for 89,168 URLs. Germany follows closely with 24,979 requests for 88,883 links. The UK, Spain and Italy close the top five. Read more...
More about Google, Search Engine, Transparency Report, Internet Freedom, and Us World Reported by Mashable 13 hours ago.
Since May 29, when Google set up the deletion process, the search engine has received requests to remove almost 500,000 links, according to data published by Google on Thursday in its first transparency report on the controversial "right to be forgotten."
See also: Do Search Engines Have Free-Speech Rights?
So far, Google has removed 170,706 URLs (41.8 percent), while keeping another 237,736 links (58.2%).
Image: Google
France leads all European countries with 28,912 requests for 89,168 URLs. Germany follows closely with 24,979 requests for 88,883 links. The UK, Spain and Italy close the top five. Read more...
More about Google, Search Engine, Transparency Report, Internet Freedom, and Us World Reported by Mashable 13 hours ago.