Google has received takedown requests for 2.4 million URLs since 2014 – but said yes to less than half.
As a result of a 2014 ruling from the European Court of Justice, EU citizens can ask Google to remove information about them from search results.
According to Google's transparency report, published today, since 28 May 2014 there have been 654,876 requests made, with 2,437,271 URLs singled out for delisting.
Google doesn't have to comply with the request, though. The biz appoints at least one reviewer to assess each case, who will weigh up whether the information is "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive".
Source: theregister
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