Google removes 40% of the requests of the right to be forgotten – The Universal

  Of the 780 000 applications for withdrawal of Internet addresses tested for a year by Google, 58.7% of them have remained in search engines.
 

 

 European Justice ruled in favor of the “right to forget” on May 13, 2014, and from the 29th of that same month, Google provides the who wants a withdrawal request form links, whose assessment is considered case-by case to see if it welcomes this legal course, which requires very specific requirements.
 

 

 Of the 780,000 requests for removal of Internet addresses evaluated during this time by Google, 58.7% of them were finally held in the search engines because the technology has been considered that the alleged claims are not welcomed included in the sentence, while the remaining 41% itself has been deleted.
 

 

 The ruling affects European countries and Spain is fourth in the list of states with more requests erase URL operated by Google during this time, with 65 544 applications, of which the technology has removed 36.5% while the rest maintained.
 

 

 Ahead are France, Germany and the United Kingdom; in the case of the former, of the approximately 145,000 Internet addresses claimed processed after deletion of search engine Google, 52% has been rejected for disposal and the other has had the approval of the technology to be withdrawn .
 

 

 In Germany, Google has accepted 49% of the 142,500 claims processed and 51% has been rejected, and the UK has been deleted only 37.6% of the approximately 105,000 requests for deletion of managed links.
 

 

 The fifth country in the list after Spain is Italy, with 27.6% of URL processed for evaluation finally cleared a total of almost 55,000 managed.
 

 

 Among the withdrawn applications are all kinds of cases, such as that of a political activist who was stabbed in a protest and asked Google removal of link to an article about the event or a teacher convicted of a misdemeanor makes ten years.
 

 

 Among the non-deleted are those of a exclérigo who requested the withdrawal of two links to articles on the investigation of allegations of sexual abuse or of a senior official who requested the withdrawal of recent articles on a criminal conviction of two decades ago.