Google will finally start scrubbing search results across all its websites when accessed from a European country to conform to the Europe’s “Right to Be Forgotten” privacy regulations. The European Court of Justice ruled in May 2014 that people could ask search engines such ass Google.com and Microsoft’s Bing to remove inadequate or irrelevant information that appears under searches for their name. The company will filter according to the user’s IP address. Prior to the ruling, Google was only removing the content on European Domains (google.co.uk, google.fr)
This is a landmark decision and will hopefully be enacted in other countries like the United States.
Here are the links:
Right To Be Forgotten Forms
Google Right To Be Forgotten Form
Bing Right to Be Forgotten Form
Yahoo Right to Be Forgotten Form
(The Right To Be Forgotten Privacy Law apply to these countries only: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungry, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom)