Google erases third of links number asked for deletion by Russians

MOSCOW, Mar 30 (PRIME) -- Google has received 1,463 applications from Russians to delete 6,464 URL-addresses with personal information from search results and erased 26.3% of links, according to the Internet company’s documents seen by PRIME late Tuesday.

Google officially started considering requests to delete links with personal data on May 29, 2014, with the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the lawsuit filed by Spanish citizen Mario Costeja Gonzalez.

Users obtained a right to ask search engines to erase certain links. Internet companies must study such requests individually and can reject them if the content of the information is of public interest.

In total, Google received in Europe 409,591 requests to delete 1.43 million URL-addresses, and 42.6% of links have been deleted.

The law on the right to be forgotten in the Internet came into force in Russia on January 1. The country’s biggest search engine Yandex has received 3,600 requests since then from 1,348 people, and 27% of applications have been satisfied.

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