As of the end of last week there were roughly 12,000 requests
that had been officially submitted to Google under Europe’s judicially
created “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) rule. Google launched an online
form last week to field the requests.
According to the Wall Street Journal the 12,000 have now turned into 41,000. That’s roughly 10,000 a day since the form went live. While the volume and pace are decreasing somewhat from last week, the numbers coming in remain brisk.
Google could be faced in a few weeks with several hundred thousand requests from 28 countries, creating a major headache and requiring a much larger staff to address the individual submissions. No individual country in Europe has yet developed any process or procedure to address RTBF and Google hasn’t done much more than put up the form.
I can imagine that all over Europe people are Googling themselves and submitting requests for any and every link that they think is damaging to their personal reputations or otherwise unflattering. It will initially be up to Google to grant or deny these requests.
Source:http://searchengineland.com/right-forgotten-requests-keep-coming-now-41000-193225
According to the Wall Street Journal the 12,000 have now turned into 41,000. That’s roughly 10,000 a day since the form went live. While the volume and pace are decreasing somewhat from last week, the numbers coming in remain brisk.
Google could be faced in a few weeks with several hundred thousand requests from 28 countries, creating a major headache and requiring a much larger staff to address the individual submissions. No individual country in Europe has yet developed any process or procedure to address RTBF and Google hasn’t done much more than put up the form.
I can imagine that all over Europe people are Googling themselves and submitting requests for any and every link that they think is damaging to their personal reputations or otherwise unflattering. It will initially be up to Google to grant or deny these requests.
Source:http://searchengineland.com/right-forgotten-requests-keep-coming-now-41000-193225
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