Google Has Scrubbed Nearly Half Its ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests -- Mostly From Facebook

Since the European Union ruling in 2014 permitting Europeans to petition Google to remove personal Web content, Google has reviewed more than 1.2 million requests, the search giant reported. It scrubbed 41 percent of them. And the site with the most URLs affected, by far, is Facebook -- a telling but obvious indication that people tend to put most personal information and share news articles on the social media site. Google wiped away 10,220 URLs on Facebook; YouTube and Twitter also ranked in the top 10 sites. Google seems to grant requests from private citizens, yet stand firm on public figures.