Google takes down newspaper's positive story about an artist

The Worcester News has been the victim of one of the more bizarre examples of the European court's so-called "right to be forgotten" ruling.

The paper was told by Google that it was removing from its search archive an article in praise of a young artist. Although Google does not say who complained, the paper's editor, Peter John, is confident that Roach himself made the request because he had previously approached the News to remove the piece from its website. Evidently, Roach is now a professional artist and, in the belief that he is now a much better painter than he was in 2009, he thinks the painting shown in the picture accompanying the article might damage his artistic reputation.