Many of Google’s verwijderverzoeken go over content from the complainant

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Google shows a remarkable amount verwijderverzoeken to get inside of internet users who zelfgegenereerde content from the search results, want to see disappear. It comes to profiles on social-media services or content provided by the complainant itself is made.

That is from the figures of the service Forget Me, a service of the company Reputation VIP. Forget Me on behalf of customers, approximately 15,000 verwijderverzoeken submitted to Google, and on the basis of these requests, an infographic drawn up. This shows that 22 percent of the submitted verwijderverzoeken refers to content provided by the complainant itself is made. On top of that, another 13 percent to verwijderverzoeken that refer to profiles on social-media services. More than a third of the requests made by Forget Me to Google are sent is directly related to content provided by internet users themselves is created.

Google shows that in almost half of the cases, a reply to a submitted request. It is 59 percent rejected. In 26 percent of the rejections set the search engine that the information “may be of interest to potential customers of a professional service’. At 22 percent, Google rejects a right-to-forget-request because the complainant himself is the author of the content. In 13 percent of the rejections are going to social-network profiles which, in principle, by the user, are deleted or modified.

In July, Google itself that the 54 percent of the cases, a search result are removed if a user submits a request for this. A third of the requests to be forgotten’ is frowned upon, and in 15 percent of the cases, ask Google first for more information of the complainant.

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