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Google seeks help defining ‘Right to be Forgotten’

By alan-clendenning
Published September 9, 2014 5:01pm ET
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Google seeks help defining ‘Right to be Forgotten’
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt smiles during a meeting about the "right to be forgotten" in Madrid, Sept. 9, 2014. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and privacy and freedom of information experts are holding the first of seven public sessions to help the company define a new "Right to be Forgotten" established by the European Union's top court and when it should take down search result links about citizens claiming information about them is irrelevant or obsolete.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) | Daniel Ochoa de Olza

MADRID (AP) — Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and a panel of experts held the first of seven public sessions Tuesday to help the company define how it should enforce a new “Right to be Forgotten” rule under which Europeans can seek the removal of embarrassing search results.

The company has received more than 120,000 requests to take down 457,000 links since a May court ruling enabled Europeans to ask for the removal of embarrassing personal information that pops up in a search of their names.

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