Google recorded 23,438 applications ‘right to be forgotten’ in Spain … – Yahoo Finance Spain

MADRID, 14 (EUROPA PRESS)

Google has deleted your browser in the past year a total of 23,891 links as a result of 23,438 applications ‘right to be forgotten’ that have occurred in Spain. These data are part of the transparency report the company made public a year after the Court of Justice of the European Union which gave reason to a Spanish that asked Google to eliminate from its search engine the ‘urls ‘to sites containing information that prejudicaban you.

In Europe, the Internet giant has processed a total of 254 271 322 601 applications and links removed, representing 41.3 percent of the requests user to delete sensitive content. Google has it rejected other requests, other 457 982 ‘urls’.

In the case of Spain, the total number of ‘urls’ than those associated with the country users have asked Google to remove amounted to 76 202. Of these, 23,891 were deleted (36.5%) and in the case of other 41 653 (63.5%) Google decided not to withdraw them. These data place our country in fourth place at European level.

France was the country where most applications were submitted (51 873) which resulted in the withdrawal of 69 592 (48%). In the case of Germany, the number of users who completed his petition to the Internet company rose to 43 206 and the number of deleted links was 69 930, almost 49 percent.

The third country number of requests was Britain with 32,143 and the number of links that dropped out was 39 596 (37.6%), followed by Italy with 19,126 applications and 27.6 percent of retirees links.

The sites most affected by the removal of links were Facebook, with 6,805 links; Profileengine, with 6,509; You Tube to and Badoo 3,948, with 3,644.

In a ruling of May 2014, Google Spain against the Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and Costeja Mario Gonzalez, the Court of Justice of the Union European decided that people have the right to ask to be removed from the search engines some results related to them. The court ruled that search engines should evaluate each of these requests and that only could continue showing the results in cases of public interest.

EVALUATION OF PETITIONS

When evaluate requests, Google must consider the rights of the user but also the public interest that may arise from the content. Among the complaints submitted contained a person convicted of a felony in the last five years to which he overturned the conviction and ordered to withdraw an article about the incident, a request that was granted by the search engine.

Among the not erased the figure of a exclérigo who requested the withdrawal of two URLs on the investigation of allegations of sexual abuse or an official of a criminal sentence of two decades ago.

To apply the ‘law oblivion ‘, Google has made available to users a web form that interested persons must fill. The company evaluates each application one by one and, in some cases, more information is asked interested. Once a decision is made, the applicant will receive an email in which you will be notified that decision with an explanation of the reasons. In the event that the answer is negative, the applicant can go to a local authority with competence in data protection for review

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