Google has granted more than 50 percent of the requests to remove links in its search results under the EU court ruling requiring the company to delete content that could harm an individual's privacy. The company disclosed the figures in a meeting with EU privacy regulators 24 July, the Wall Street Journal reported. It said it had removed tens of thousands of links, equal to over half the requests processed to date, a person familiar with the matter told the paper. Since Google began taking removal requests in late May, it has received them from 91,000 individuals, covering 328,000 URLs, although not all the requests have yet been processed.
The meeting was called by privacy regulators in order to question Google on a range of it policies. Some regulators have been critical of how the search company has implemented the court ruling. Some have been demanding that Google end its notifications to websites that have been the subject of 'right to be forgotten' requests, which have in some cases made it possible to identify the person making the request.
The search company said it had rejected just over 30 percent of the requests processed and had requested more information in 15 percent of cases. The most requests came from France, with 17,500, followed by Germany with 16,500 and the UK with 12,000.
