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The court ruled the right to be forgotten did not extend outside of Europe.
Requests to remove content from search results can be made under ‘right to be forgotten’ regulations.
While more than 250,000 requests have been made, the issue remains as divisive as ever.
The EU’s privacy regulators are pushing for its ‘Right to be Forgotten’ ruling to be applied globally by all search engines.
And almost 150,000 requests were made across Europe since Google started processing requests in May.
Google removed links to the page of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
The ECJ ruling is a godsend for criminals who want to scrub their record clean – and sets a worrying precedent for empowering governments to act beyond their borders.
The form will apply to both Bing and Yahoo since the latter uses Microsoft’s search engine to power its own results.
Several British newspapers have seen links to certain articles removed from Google’s search results as the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling takes effect.
Those search results which had links removed will come with a disclaimer at the bottom of the page.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Google to remove all search results relating to a company called Datalink, following the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling in Europe.
Search result pages which had links removed could be marked at the bottom of the page, similar to how Google highlights takedown requests over copyright infringing material.
More than 12,000 requests were made on the first day alone as Google copes with the ruling made by the European Court of Justice.
The company’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, said the ECJ had struck the wrong balance, causing what he describes as a “collision between a right to be forgotten and a right to know.”
An EU court has ruled that a person can request certain information to be removed from search engines if “the data appears to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant.”