Google Hosts 'Right To Be Forgotten' Debate

A panel appointed by search engine Google is holding the first of a series of meetings on Tuesday to debate the balance between privacy and the free flow of information.

It follows a court ruling in May which reinforced the "right to be forgotten" of people living in Europe.

The event in Madrid will be the first of seven in European capitals, as Google struggles with thousands of requests every month to remove information from its search results.

The requests have included serious criminal records, embarrassing photos, instances of online bullying and negative press stories.

By mid-July, Google, which holds more than 80% of Europe's search market, said it had received more than 90,000 requests and accepted more than half.

The European Union's top court ruled it must remove search results if the information was inadequate or no longer relevant.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is on the panel

Meanwhile, data protection regulators from European countries have been working on guidelines for the search engines, which also include Microsoft and Yahoo!, to ensure that requests are handled consistently.

If a search engine declines a person's request, he or she has the right to appeal to the national data protection regulator. Some 90 such appeals have been filed in Britain, 70 in Spain, 20 in France and 13 in Ireland.

Some examples of link removals have become public because Google notified media outlets such as the BBC and Guardian when their stories were removed from search results.

This prompted claims that Europe's internet was being whitewashed and the press censored.

The advisory council is made up of Google's general counsel David Drummond and chairman Eric Schmidt, plus eight other people from outside the company.

These include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a vocal critic of the "right to be forgotten", and UN human rights official Frank La Rue.

After Madrid the council will meet in Rome on Wednesday, then Paris, Warsaw, Berlin, London and Brussels.

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