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Right to be forgotten online still divides the world

Two years after the right to be forgotten took root in Europe, the world is deeply split over the future of digital deletion, says Meg Leta Jones

By Meg Leta Jones

13 May 2016

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Forget me not?

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Two years ago today the European Union’s highest court shook the internet when . The Court of Justice means EU residents can ask for search results about them to be removed by going to Google’s , inputting details to verify identity and listing offending results.

Since then Google has assessed to have nearly 1.5 million URLs scrubbed from search results, with a removal rate of around 43 per cent.

Google assesses each claim based…

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