Google has received requests from 683 people in Portugal who want their personal information erased from the online search engine.
According to data revealed by the multinational corporation, over 70,000 Europeans have made the same request since the European Court of Justice decided last May that citizens have a right to ask Google and other online search engines to erase their personal information.
Their right is valid, however, only when in regard to “inadequate, non-relevant or excessive information”.
France is the country with most requests –over 14,000 – followed by Germany, the UK and Spain.
Google begun eliminating links last week and is “working to tend to all requests as soon as possible,” it says, stressing the “complexity” of the process.
They explain that for every request, an average of 3.8 URLs (web addresses) must be eliminated. Therefore, a total of 260,000 URLs must be erased to tend to the 70,000 requests so far.
