Three years after first discovering some 3,600 abusive, defamatory postings online, a UK businessman has settled with Google to get search results taken down. 
Tag Archives: right to be forgotten
Google fined for not taking down “right to be forgotten” links worldwide
The “right to be forgotten” case is the first in Europe to take the power to compel link takedown outside a country’s border and into the search results Google delivers worldwide. 
Google ordered to forget ‘endangered’ man’s search results by Tokyo court
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.
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.
Bing follows Google by offering ‘right to be forgotten’ form
It’s unclear whether Microsoft will take a similar approach to Google in the way it handles Bing search results. The situation certainly needs clarification and the big 3 search engines have been invited to meet with EU privacy regulators next Thursday to discuss how the ruling should be implemented.
‘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 forced to e-forget a company worldwide
Perhaps inspired by Europeans winning the right to be forgotten in Google search results last month, a Canadian court has ruled that Google has to remove search results for a Canadian company’s competitor, not just in Canada but around the world.
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Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google’s search results.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. 