Right to be forgotten: Google received 145,000 requests in four months – lepopulaire.fr

 

(AFP) – Google said Friday in a report that it received nearly 145,000 applications of online Europeans to clear some of their information from its search services, in just over four months

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The European Internet since late May can complete an online form to request the removal of search results about them with the American giant, which largely dominates the world of search engines. From day one, Google received 12,000 requests to do so.

 

Since then, the number rose to 144,954 claims, which resulted in the removal of 497,695 web pages of the search engine, the report said. Google has stopped indexing 58.2% of the links that have been reported.

 

 

 

 

 

 

According to data from Google, the French and the Germans are the most concerned about their digital identity Europeans. Google received 28,912 requests in France and 24,979 in Germany.

 

This procedure respects the right to be forgotten, was set up to comply with a decision of the European Court of Justice. It was held that an individual must be able to remove personal information about indexed by a search engine, especially if they are out of date or inaccurate, addressing him directly.

 

The creation of this right to be forgotten responds to a growing concern for Internet users to check their online reputation, which doubles European concerns about the protection of personal data and, in this regard, a strong distrust vis-à-vis the United States in general and Google in particular.