European press has been active.
A lot of criticism and scrutiny of Google and the way it’s applying the new “Right
to be forgotten” rules.
Let’s take The guardian as an
example.
A quick search, led me to all
these different articles (among so many others!) just in the last few days:
- UK news organisations criticise Google over implementation of new law
- Things to remember about Google and the right to be forgotten
- What is Google deleting under the 'right to be forgotten' - and why?
- Google 'learning as we go' in row over right to be forgotten
- Google will be happy with mediaanger over 'right to be forgotten'
- The 'right to be forgotten'doesn't mean we should be censoring Google results
The criticisms
are several.
The Guardian, Daily Mail and
BBC complained about the Search Engine application of the European rule.
According to the EU rule, the
information must be either inaccurate, irrelevant or outdated to be kept
outside of a search, and according to the news, publishers are complaining
about Google being too hasty and removing searches that don’t fulfill any of
these 3 criteria.
Is this
causing the Streisand effect in a large scale?
The Guardian has an article
with links to all articles that were removed from Google’s searches. The story
of Dougie McDonald, the referee that admitted to have lied about awarding a
penalty in the Scottish FA Cup, is all over the place.
An
important remark
The way Google is applying the
law is by omitting search results when you search for the specific name,
however searches for any other words can lead you to those articles, so those
webpages will still be accessible through Google.
Some key
facts and numbers
- +90% of searches in Europe are done through Google
- +70,000 requests to remove links
- France (14,086), Germany (12,678), the UK (8,497), Spain (6,176) and Italy (5,934) are the countries where most requests come from
- +12,000 requests a day at the beginning of the implementation
- ~1,000 requests a day currently
- Unspecified number of paralegals deal with the requests
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