More than 13,000 Spaniards ask the ‘right to be forgotten’ in Google – Diariocrítico.com

From May 2014, users can request Google to remove links to their Internet search engines to be eligible for what is known as ‘right to be forgotten’. For this, the company evaluates each request and includes criteria such as accuracy of information, if it is outdated or if the public interest in deciding whether removed or not.

In his latest transparency report, Google reports that a total of 13,478 people in Spain have requested to remove a link. Users who have embraced this mechanism have called 43,580 links are removed, although only admitted 34.1% of applications (12,437).

In general, claim to have received 146,938 petitions and have retired links in 41.8% of cases. Among the domains that are more withdrawal requests information highlights, first, the social network Facebook, where have withdrawn 3,353 links.

Second would be ‘The Profile Engine’, which is a tool that acts as a search engine in other social networks. And thirdly, Youtube, the popular video page appears.

In the examples of applications accepted, Google does not include any Spanish case, but the request of a woman in Italy who asked appears for example that withdraw an article about the murder of her husband in which her name appeared. There are also several examples in which a person asks removal of links to news in which it was reported past offenses, that is a problem for their working lives.

Requests for public bodies

The report also calls for withdrawal recorded by government agencies of different countries include content, rather than individual users. The latest data show refer to a time period between January and June 2013 and are divided into two sources: requests for court orders and requests from other agencies such as the government or the police

In the case of Spain, 21 warrant requests by other agencies and 36 were recorded. Although not broken down the type of application for each country in general Google says that most of these are for defamation, followed by elements that affect privacy and security and the “adult content”.

Of the countries included in the Google report highlights the number of requests of government agencies in the United States, with 438 requests by court order and 107 other agencies are at the top of the list. However, Turkey is the country that requests performed by the government or the police, a total of 1,489

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