Google Grants Majority of 'Right to Be Forgotten' Requests

Google has removed tens of thousands of links -- possibly more than 100,000 -- from its European search results, according to a person familiar with the matter, illustrating the scale of Europe's nascent "right to be forgotten."

Google told European privacy regulators during a meeting in Brussels Thursday that it has removed slightly more than 50% of the links that it has so far processed under the new right, the person said. Since Google began taking removal requests in late May, it has received them from 91,000 individuals, covering 328,000 URLs -- though not all the requests have yet been processed, the person said, adding that the rate of removals was still preliminary.