On January 1st, 2023, 97 percent of right to be forgotten (RTBF) requests sent to Google containing personal information were delisted. Additionally, 93 percent of content with sensitive personal information was delisted too. Nevertheless, only 61 percent of the requests about content containing crime were removed.
Rate of delisting after right to be forgotten (RTBF) requests submitted to online search platforms in European countries in January 2023, by content
Additionally, 2 requests were submitted from Cyprus, considered as Western Asia by the source.
According to the source:
"The ”right to be forgotten” was first established in 2014 and redefined as the “right to erasure” with the GDPR adoption in 2018. Therefore, the right applies to countries covered by GDPR (the EU and the EEA) and some other European countries that have adopted similar laws, like the UK and Switzerland."
"We analyzed 32 countries that submitted “right to be forgotten” requests to Google and Microsoft Bing between 2015 and 2021. Countries that had submitted requests for one company but not the other were excluded from the analysis due to discrepancies in the countries reported by the two companies. For example, while Russia’s data protection law defines a right similar to GDPR’s “right to erasure,” only Microsoft reports on Russian requests. Excluding the countries present in one data set but not the other left us with a list of EU and EEA countries and the UK and Switzerland, which have also enforced regulations analogous to GDPR."
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SurfShark. (March 25, 2024). Rate of delisting after right to be forgotten (RTBF) requests submitted to online search platforms in European countries in January 2023, by content [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1460786/right-to-be-forgotten-requests-delisting-rate-by-content/
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