12,000 sign Google form on day 1

12,000 sign Google form on day 1Google’s new online “right to be forgotten” form received 12,000 separate take-down requests on its first day, with consumers signing up at a rate of 20 a minute during its peak, according to reports.
The Internet giant launched the scheme on Friday, in response to last month’s EU Court of Justice ruling that consumers had the right to remove links to search engine results which linked them to either “irrelevant, outdated, or otherwise inappropriate” material.
The ruling only demands Google remove the link to the information, rather than the information itself. Sources at the company have already admitted that they will need to build up an “army of removal experts” in each of the 28 European Union countries, including those where Google does not have operations.
However, the company immediately ran into trouble with German data protection bosses, who claimed that its demand for people to use ID cards or passports to prevent fraudulent requests contravened German law.
Despite welcoming Google’s rapid response to the ruling it said that “thoroughness” was more important than “speed”.
The Hamburg data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar expressed concerns about the copying and processing of scanned passports and German ID cards, which is highly restricted under German laws.
Caspar said that other proofs of identity should only contain personal data that is absolutely required for the purpose of verifying the individuals’ identity. He also said that Google had not made it clear to users how long it would retain the personal data included on the forms for before deleting the information.

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