Google received 'right to be forgotten' URL removal requests for 1.2 million sites

Google has released some numbers related to the ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling. It means individuals who’ve requested removing of certain URLs from search results.  According to the stats revealed via the transparency report, Google says it received 347,000 requests regarding links to 1.2 million sites. It removed the links for 42 percent of the cases. The data dates back to the launch of the official request process on May 29, 2014. In all, Google has evaluated 1,235,473 URLs for removal. Citing an example of a case in the UK, Google writes, “After we removed a news story about a minor crime, the newspaper published a story about the removal action. The Information Commissioner’s Office ordered us to remove the second story from search results for the individual’s name. We removed the page from search results for the individual’s name.” Google has listed sites that have seen most URL removal requests. Needless to say, Facebook takes the top spot with 10229 URLs removed, followed by Profileengine, Google Groups, YouTube, badoo, Google Plus, Annuaire, Twitter, Wherevent and 192. The top 10 sites account to 9 percent of the removed URLs. You can read the complete report here.