“Right to be forgotten” requests can be made by more than 500 million people living in 32 countries.
Facebook is the site affected most, with 3,353 links removed Eu
The internet search company has reveale,remove more than 60,000 web links from its results under the “right to be forgotten” to google
An average of more than 1,000 requests a day A total of 18,304 requests were made from the UK alone, while across Europe there were 145,000 appeals by individuals wanting links removed .
According to a data released on its website, the firm has removed 35% – or 18,459 – of unwanted links to web pages for Britons, who made the third highest number of referrals in the EU behind the French and Germans with 29,010 and 25,078 respectively.
“A media professional requested that we remove four links to articles reporting on embarrassing content he posted to the internet. We did not remove the pages from search results.” Google listed some examples of the types of requests made from the UK, including