The recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union has profound consequences for search engines in Europe. The court found that certain users have the right to ask search engines to remove results for queries that include the person’s name. To qualify, the results shown would need to be inadequate, irrelevant, no longer relevant, or excessive.
Since this ruling was published on 13 May 2014, we’ve been working round the clock to comply. This is a complicated process because we need to assess each individual request and balance the rights of the individual to control his or her personal data with the public’s right to know and distribute information.
The Right To Be Forgotten is the concept that people have the civil right to request that personal information, videos, or images be removed from the Internet so that search engines cannot find them and no longer appear in search results for your name.
More at our data advocacy here
