Microsoft’s search engine Bing has begun to remove search results in Europe that mention individuals who have invoked their ‘right to be forgotten’, reports removal request service Forget.me.
Following a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union in May, Bing began accepting removal requests in July by releasing a form for users to fill out. Forget.me reports that users of its service who requested Bing to remove requests have now begun to receive responses.
Of the 699 requests made via Forget.me, 79 have received responses so far, all of which have been refusals to comply. Two of the refusals cite unjustified reasoning, while the rest are responses to search results pointing to content on social networks, for which Bing suggests requesting takedowns directly on those social networks for effective search result removal.
The head of Article 29 Working Party of EU national data protection authorities said earlier this week that it won’t be mandatory for Google to notify publishers and media outlets when their stories are delisted from search results – so it’s also possible that Bing has complied with other requests and removed them, but Forget.me hasn’t received any such notifications.
➤ The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’: Bing has started responding to search engine removal requests [Forget.me]
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