Politician seeking re-election and convicted pedophile first to request removal from Google

A British politician seeking re-election has made requests to Google to have results removed from the search engine following the "right to be forgotten" ruling.

Politician seeking re-election and convicted pedophile first to request removal from Google

Earlier this week, the European High Court ruled that people had the “right to be forgotten”, and could request that articles in Google search results that tarnished their reputation be removed from Google searches linked to them.

The politician has asked for stories linking him to a scandal to be removed from searches related to him, sources confirmed.

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