Google looks for public input on right to be forgotten

Google is planning a series of seven public meetings across Europe to discuss balancing people's right to be forgotten with the public's right to information. The Google Advisory Council announced the meetings and said the first one will be held in Madrid on Sept 9.

Other public meetings will be held in Rome, Paris, Warsaw, Berlin and London. The last one will take place in Brussels on Nov 4. "A recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union found that European law gives people the right to ask search engines like Google to remove results for queries that include their name," the council said in a statement. "Since then, we've received removal requests on all sorts of content: serious criminal records, embarrassing photos, instances of online bullying and name-calling, decades-old allegations, negative press stories, and more."