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Google has launched a service to allow Europeans to ask for personal data to be removed from online search results.<\/p>\n

The move comes after a landmark European Union court ruling earlier this month, which gave people the “right to be forgotten”.<\/p>\n

Links to “irrelevant” and outdated data should be erased on request, it said.<\/p>\n

Google said it would assess each request and balance “privacy rights of the individual with the public’s right to know and distribute information”.<\/p>\n

“When evaluating your request, we will look at whether the results include outdated information about you, as well as whether there’s a public interest in the information,”\u00a0Google says on the form which applicants must fill in<\/a><\/p>\n

Google said it would look at information about “financial scams, professional malpractice, criminal convictions, or public conduct of government officials” while deciding on the request.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the BBC learned that more than half of the requests sent to Google from UK individuals involved convicted criminals.<\/p>\n

This included a man convicted of possessing child abuse images who had also asked for links to pages about his conviction to be wiped.<\/p>\n

‘Fraudulent requests’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google said information would start to be removed from mid-June and any results affected by the removal process would be flagged to searchers.<\/p>\n

Decisions about data removal would be made by people rather than the algorithms that govern almost every other part of Google’s search system.<\/p>\n

Disagreements about whether information should be removed or not will be overseen by national data protection agencies.<\/p>\n

Europe’s data regulators are scheduled to meet on 3-4 June. The “right to forget” will be discussed at that gathering and could result in a statement about how those watchdogs will handle appeals.<\/p>\n

Information will only disappear from searches made in Europe. Queries piped through its sites outside the region will still show the contested data.<\/p>\n

On 13 May, the EU’s court of justice ruled that links to “irrelevant” and outdated data on search engines should be erased on request.<\/p>\n

The case was brought by a Spanish man who complained that an auction notice of his repossessed home, which appeared on Google’s search results, infringed his privacy.<\/p>\n

Less innovation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Friday, Google said that EU citizens who want their private details removed from the search engine will be able to do so by filling out an online form.<\/p>\n

However, they will need to provide links to the material they want removed, their country of origin, and a reason for their request.<\/p>\n

Individuals will also have to attach a valid photo identity.<\/p>\n

“Google often receives fraudulent removal requests from people impersonating others, trying to harm competitors, or improperly seeking to suppress legal information,” the firm said.<\/p>\n

“To prevent this kind of abuse, we need to verify identity.”<\/p>\n

However, in\u00a0an interview given to the Financial Times<\/a>, Google boss Larry Page said that although the firm would comply with the ruling, it could damage innovation.<\/p>\n

He also said the regulation would give cheer to repressive regimes.<\/p>\n

Mr Page said he regretted not being “more involved in a real debate” about privacy in Europe, and that the company would now try to “be more European”.<\/p>\n

But, he warned, “as we regulate the internet, I think we’re not going to see the kind of innovation we’ve seen”.<\/p>\n

Mr Page added that the ruling would encourage “other governments that aren’t as forward and progressive as Europe to do bad things”.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/div>\n
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