Google has up to date its proper to be forgotten EU takedown notices and particulars to not present the precise URLs and to cease notifying publishers of those requests. It is a massive change from how these initially labored again in 2014.
Initially, when there was an EU takedown request, Google would share the specifics so the writer might act on it. Now, Google doesn’t, it simply tells the writer there was a takedown request however doesn’t give any element.
Rob P. shared these particulars with me on X earlier this week saying you “not see URLs in EU takedown notices from Google.” And he was useless on, he shared this screenshot exhibiting how the notify button was eliminated and the precise affected URLs part was faraway from the underside of the discover:
Then yesterday, The Guardian reported that “Google has quietly stopped telling publishers when it has eliminated web sites from its search outcomes below European “proper to be forgotten” guidelines after a ruling in a Swedish court docket which the search engine is making use of globally.”
Google informed the Guardian:
We rolled out our new strategy to notifications following a call by Sweden’s information safety authority, which entered into drive in December 2023 after the Swedish administrative supreme court docket refused us go away to attraction.
We disagreed with the choice on the time – nevertheless it’s binding and confirms pan-EU regulatory steerage. We’ve got due to this fact undertaken a robust effort to adjust to it.
So I suppose this alteration occurred a couple of months in the past however I by no means observed it and figured I might allow you to all know.
Discussion board dialogue at X.
