News websites in top 10 for ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

News sites in Ireland are nearly twice as likely as elsewhere to be the subject of ‘right to be forgotten’ requests.

These account for 35% of web pages on Irish web domains that internet search engine Google has been asked to remove from its search results.

The corresponding figure across all countries is less than 18% of the 2.4m requests since January 2016, according to a significant update by the company to its transparency report.