Google ordered to remove links to ‘right to be forgotten’

Google has been ordered by the Information Commissioner’s office to remove nine links to current news stories about older reports which themselves were removed from search results under the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling.The search engine had previously removed links relating to a 10 year-old criminal offence by an individual after requests made under the right to be forgotten ruling. Removal of those links from Google’s search results for the claimant’s name spurred new news posts detailing the removals, which were then indexed by Google’s search engine.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/20/google-ordered-to-remove-links-to-stories-about-right-to-be-forgotten-removalsAlso see:Google ordered to remove news links by UK authority
Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the “right to be forgotten”.Details of a “minor criminal offence” were referenced in the stories regarding an individual, the ICO said.Earlier links about the case had already been removed – but this act of removal itself later became news.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34015894

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