Takedown-rights fever has hit Tokyo, where a District Court on Thursday issued an injunction forcing Google to take down about 120 of 230 search results about a Japanese man that implicated him in past crimes because he felt his life was being endangered by the search results.
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Google grapples anew with EC in the search/advertising antitrust swamp
The EC’s poked the sleeping dragon, yet again reopening a four-year antitrust investigation that puts Google in the hot seat. The surprise move comes after rivals fumed loud and hard about getting unfairly shut out in the most recent settlement. This time, Android may be up for investigation, too. 
Google et al slammed by justice chief over ‘right to be forgotten’
Europe’s Commissioner for Justice, Martine Reicherts, has slammed Google and other opponents of the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling, claiming that they are attempting to undermine the reform.
‘Hidden from Google’ site remembers the pages Google’s forced to forget
The newly launched site is archiving the pages Google was forced to de-index in the name of opening up to the internet as a whole the discussion regarding what should or should not be “forgotten.”
Google to flag ‘right to be forgotten’ censored search results
Google is reportedly planning to put an alert on the bottom of every page where links have been removed in the wake of the recent “right to be forgotten” court ruling. 
12,000 Europeans ask Google to forget them
Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google’s search results. Will those numbers continue, or is there just a pent-up demand of people wanting to blip their existence off the internet? 
People have the right to be e-forgotten, EU court rules against Google
Some call it a privacy win, some call it a quagmire where free speech will suffer, some say it’s irrelevant because plenty of US search companies are shielded by the First Amendment. 