Google ordered to take down news story links

Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the “right to be forgotten” ruling.

Details of a “minor criminal offence” were referenced in stories that appeared among Google search results, said the ICO, adding that the individual involved in the case had committed the crime “almost 10 years ago”.

Earlier links about the case had already been removed at the request of the individual, but this itself had then become a news story. It is the links to the new articles that must now be removed.