Google’s Right to be Forgotten came into play over a year ago now thanks to a European court ruling forcing Google to comply with requests from individuals to remove their names from search results; and originally started off by by Spaniard Mario Costeja González who wanted Google to remove search results that pointed to online articles about his home being repossessed.
A year later Google has published a transparency report showcasing some pretty interesting data:
- Google recieved a total of 255,143 requests referring to 925.586 URLs
- Google rejected 58.7% of these requests.
- 6853 URLs were from Facebook.com
- 3951 URLs were from Youtube.com
- 2870 URLs were from Google+
- 2578 URLs were from Twitter
For those of you affected by Google’s Right to be Forgotten – I urge you to check out the transparency report for yourself here.