Forget me not? plainpicture/Kniel Synnatzschke
Two years ago today the European Union’s highest court shook the internet when it declared that EU citizens had a right to be forgotten online. The Court of Justice ruling means EU residents can ask for search results about them to be removed by going to Google’s takedown form, inputting details to verify identity and listing offending results.
Since then Google has assessed requests from over 425,000 EU citizens to have nearly 1.5 million URLs scrubbed from search results, with a removal rate of around…
