Google gives more examples of ‘right to be forgotten’ acceptances & refusals
Google has today updated its Transparency Report with more examples of ‘right to be forgotten‘ requests it has received, stating in each case whether it accepted or rejected the request. This follows other examples last year of easy and difficult cases.
The cases make it clear that Google has to balance fairness to the individual against the wider public interest. For example, while it might agree to remove decades-old information about private individuals, it refused to do so for a public figure in Hungary.
A high ranking public official asked us to remove recent articles discussing a decades-old criminal conviction. We did not remove the articles from search results …