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“This obligation has been a new and difficult challenge for us, and we’ve sought advice on the principles Google ought to apply when making decisions on individual cases.”The transparency report included various examples of requests the company approved – and denied – from individuals around the world. In one instance, a woman requested Google remove pages from search results showing her address; Google responded by removing the pages from search results for her name. However, another example described an instance in which Google received a request from a couple who was accused of business fraud, and wanted articles about the crime to be taken down. Google did not comply with the request, and did not remove the pages from search results. It is no surprise that the sites most impacted from URL removals include several social media networking sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, Google Plus and Twitter. Of the total links “forgotten,” however, the top ten sites only account for eight percent of the requests.
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