Google Grappling With 70,000 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests

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I guess this wouldn't be a problem if Google had been doing this from the start. Now that the courts have forced them to do it, they have a backlog of requests. Whoddathunkit?

In a column published Thursday for The Guardian, Google chief legal officer David Drummond said that since May when the "right to be forgotten" ruling went into effect, the company has received more than 70,000 takedown requests encompassing 250,000 individual webpages. In most cases, Google's team is reviewing the requests from users who provide limited information and not much context.
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Just boggles my mind that lawmakers just don't understand the internet does not work via boundaries, your laws in your country should apply to companies in other countries, your citizens "dialed" Google, not the other way around.
 
Google did 235 MILLION dmca takedown's last year, i think they can do 70k right to be forgotten requests.
 
They shouldn't have to do any of them... They are a search page not the elders of the internet in big ben!
 
They should come in preapproved from someone else (government agency maybe) ... or alternately they grant Google a blanket liability shield so they can approve all of them without researching them ;)
 
forcefed said:
Google did 235 MILLION dmca takedown's last year, i think they can do 70k right to be forgotten requests.
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Yeah, while I think this "right to be forgotten" thing is BS, it's funny that Google is complaining they can't handle 70k requests, when they do 10x that amount of DMCA take downs in a day.
 
Honestly I think you guys might be missing the bigger picture here. I doubt it is that Google can't handle a mere 70k requests, but they are going out of their way to drag their feet and complain about a law that is just asinine. I might be being too optimistic here, but it seems to me that since Google was opposed to this law in the first place, they are just protesting it any way they can in the hopes that it eventually gets repealed. If so that is a GOOD thing, because this law is just bullshit. I would be willing to wager that 69,999 of those "Right to be forgotten requests" are turds who did something that damn well SHOULD be remembered and held against them.
 
forcefed said:
Google did 235 MILLION dmca takedown's last year, i think they can do 70k right to be forgotten requests.
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This. Google automates everything, but this is perplexing to them.

Reminds me of when you unsub from an unwanted email, and the unsub page tells you that it can take up to XX days to process the request.
 
Lith1um said:
This. Google automates everything, but this is perplexing to them.

Reminds me of when you unsub from an unwanted email, and the unsub page tells you that it can take up to XX days to process the request.
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Do you really WANT automated censorship of the internet? Who is Adolph Hitler? I don't know, he emailed in from Brazil and used his "right to be forgotten" request.

The internet is supposed to be a giant repository of information, and to encourage widescale censorship like this is the equivalent of going back into ancient times into the Great Library of Alexandria and ripping pages out of books.

And for those of you that argue that making something on the internet impossible for the majority to find is different than censoring it... please.
 
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