Google Provides Details on ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests in EU; Facebook Leads in Removed Links

Facebook, and Google’s own services, are among the websites to be most affected by Europe’s so-called right to be forgotten, according to figures released by Google.

Google said that it had removed more links to content on Facebook from its search results than from any other site, in response to people’s requests to have links to material expunged to protect their privacy. Two of Google’s services -- YouTube and the online forum Google Groups -- were also among the products most affected by such requests.