41,000 requests to remove names under ‘right to be forgotten law’

Google has been deluged with requests by people wanting their names removed from its search engine under their ‘right to be forgotten’.

Thu, 05 Jun, 2014 - 01:00

Noel Baker

It emerged yesterday the company had, within a period of four days, received 41,000 requests from people across Europe seeking to have personal information removed from web search results.

The company introduced the takedown mechanism last Friday.

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