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Microsoft Bing Starts Taking 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests

The company's move comes after Google began taking the requests last month.

 

Microsoft has begun taking 'right to be forgotten' requests from people in Europe who do not want their information showing up on its Bing search results. The move is in keeping with a court judgment passed in May that guaranteed EU citizens the same.

Bing controls 2.5 per cent of the European Internet search market, and Microsoft's move follows leader Google, which began offering the right to be forgotten last month. The issue was brought to light when the Luxembourg court ruled that Google should remove a 15 year old newspaper article about a Spanish man's bankruptcy.

The right to be forgotten ruling affects EU's 500 million people and gives them the ability to ask search services to pull down information that is “Inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant.” The move has been lauded by privacy activists and has been sparking up huge debates in other parts of the world.

According to Google the sheer number of requests being received from citizens of Europe is overwhelming. While the company isn't too happy about the ruling, but claims to be trying its best to carry out the right to be forgotten requests.


TAGS: Microsoft, Bing, Right to be Forgotten, Google

 
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