The right to be forgotten by Google

Google agrees to remove links with "outdated" and "incorrect" information. The company launched on Friday, May 30, a service through which you can send a request to delete a link. Thus, Google has fulfilled the requirement of the court of the European Union.



The EU court ruling, according to which EU citizens have the right to require search engines to remove references to “incorrect” and “outdated” information, was issued on May 13. However, data access will remain on the source site, despite their removal from the search engine.



In the coming months, Google intends to work closely with data protection authorities to "improve the mechanism" of the execution of the company's representatives. According to them, each request should be accompanied by an explanation of why the link should be removed from the search results.

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At the same time, one of the founders of the Google search engine Larry Page warns that the new practice may be detrimental to young Internet firms and provide an additional opportunity to increase control over the Internet.



On the very first day after giving Google the opportunity to remove links from search results, about 12,000 applications were submitted. This means that during peak hours there were received 20 applications per minute.



You can exercise your right to be forgotten here: support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch#